Word: trend
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...census takers prepare for the 1990 population count, which could sharply shift the relative clout of states in the House of Representatives and force the redistribution of countless federal aid programs, one trend is already evident: as a group, Hispanics have grown five times as fast as the rest of the U.S. population since 1980. Their number has leaped 39% and is now 20.1 million, 8.2% of the U.S. total. The figures, released last week, came from a Census Bureau survey conducted in March, which made no attempt to distinguish between legal and illegal residents...
Large newspapers are also trying to cash in on the trend: the Miami Herald has considered circulating its daily Spanish edition nationally; the Los Angeles Times plans to make its twice-monthly Spanish insert a weekly next year. Twenty-four dailies carry Vista, an English-language Sunday insert (partly owned by Time Warner) aimed at Hispanic readers...
...incident was all the more significant because it is part of a trend. In March British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who in the mid-1980s denounced environmental activists as the "enemy within," convened an international meeting on the depletion of the atmosphere's ozone layer, which protects the earth from harmful solar radiation. That same month the Prime Ministers of Norway, France and the Netherlands chaired a conference that proposed creation of an international authority with the power to draft and enforce environmental regulations around the world...
...motive for these mountainous excavations: gold. In 1961 Livermore, then working for the Newmont Mining Corp., made a seminal discovery. He looked for gold in the "windows" of a geological feature known as the Carlin Trend. Windows occur where obscuring layers of rock, displaced by an uplift, have eroded to expose the rock below. When Livermore cut into a window on the Carlin Trend, he hit what nongeologists took to calling invisible gold...
About a dozen large open-pit gold mines using such techniques are now strung out along the Carlin Trend. The Dee. Maggie Creek. Gold Quarry. Goldstrike. Blue Star. The Rain. The Bootstrap. American Barrick Resources Corp., a Canadian company, recently announced plans to excavate a billion tons of rock to get at 12 million oz. of gold -- worth about $4.4 billion at current prices. In the process, the mine will bequeath to posterity a hole 1,500 ft. deep, 4,000 ft. wide and 7,000 ft. long...