Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most cases, farmers are becoming more careful about capital investments. Spending on tractors and other equipment is expected to fall by nearly 6% this year, to $4.4 billion. Of course, the downside of that trend is a continuing shake-out in the farm-implement business. In Iowa alone, 274 dealers have shut their doors since 1982. Complains Larry Southard, co-owner of a John Deere dealership in Marshalltown, Iowa: "People are making do with the equipment they have for yet another year...
...team hopes that its success in the past three meets is indicative of a trend that will sweep it to victory in a key December 5 match against Columbia...
Rika Welsh, director of community relations for American Cablesystems, added that television has had a negative impact on the functional literacy rate but that it has the potential to reverse the trend. "Television is not all bad and doesn't have to be the problem it has been...
Celebrities have been the most visible exemplars of the trend. Just a few: Mimi Rogers, 32, and Tom Cruise, 25; Debra Winger, 32, and Timothy Hutton, 27; Olivia Newton-John, 39, and Matt Lattanzi, 28. But ordinary folks are doing it in droves, as Houston observes in the recently published Loving a Younger Man (Contemporary Books; $17.95). Among the couples she interviewed, Houston found that the woman is usually over 30, divorced (from an older man) and often has children. Her younger partner typically grew up with a working mother and has sisters who also have careers. "He's familiar...
Spurring the trend, which is largely confined to white professionals, is the fabled man crunch: single women over 35 far outnumber single men their age. According to Government statistics, nearly 40% of brides ages 35 to 44 resolve this demographic dilemma by marrying younger men. While the age difference is usually just a few years, the gap appears to be widening. In 1970 only 3.7% of brides were five years or more older than their mates; now that figure has reached...