Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Schelling said that if the trend of the past 20 years is any indication, smoking may disappear in the United States in 50 years. He cited the notable decline during the past two decades in the number of people who begin smoking, as well as an increase in the number of people who have quit...
...companies went on a buying binge, gobbling up disparate lines of business that ranged from luggage to toys to women's clothing. Now many are discovering that their eyes were bigger than their stomach, and they are getting back to basic areas of expertise. The latest to join the trend is Chicago's Quaker Oats, the breakfast giant. It will shed its nonfood division, the Specialty Retailing Group, which accounts for 6% of the company's $3.67 billion in sales. Acting on the same impulse, Northbrook, Ill.-based Dart & Kraft (1985 sales: $9.9 billion) had previously announced that it would...
Despite such changes in attitude, AIDS high-risk groups, particularly homosexuals, are feeling an increasing employment chill. Physician Leon Warshaw, executive director of the New York Business Group on Health, decries the trend. Says he: "Fear of AIDS is a front for an unreasoning homophobia. People who have the mannerisms or appearance or careers that suggest they might be gay -- whether they are or not -- become a source of concern for employers...
...decisions have produced a wave of excitement in legal circles. "This is a terribly important trend," says Dugard. "I wouldn't say it's a confrontation, but the courts are asserting their independence and distancing themselves from the executive." Concurs a leading white lawyer: "There is a more responsive bench today than there has been in previous decades...
...reform bill will reverse a 3 1/2decade trend in which businesses have been anteing up an increasingly slender share of the federal tax burden. From a postwar high of 34% in the early 1950s, the corporate contribution to the tax total dwindled to just 8.4% last year. It should now rise to about 13%. Yet the elimination of various loopholes will still allow the maximum tax rate for business to come down from 46% to 34%, enabling the companies that now pay the highest taxes to get substantial relief...