Word: trend
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Treasure hunters are delighted by the trend, which has made many previously unreachable or unknown offshore wrecks accessible to enterprising amateurs. But scientists are becoming agitated. "This technology is out of control," Ballard told a congressional hearing last year. Says Helen Hooper, a consultant for the Society for Archaeology: "There's a mini-gold rush going on right now, and it's endangering some of the more important sites. We're afraid that if there isn't some slowing down of this treasure hunting, there won't be anything left...
...INVESTMENTS. The proposed ban on all new investments by U.S. businesses in South Africa, including improvements in subsidiaries there, is another example of a trend already taking place because of market forces. Rather than pump new money into these operations in the unpredictable situation in South Africa, parent companies in the U.S. have been selling off assets or letting branches use their profits to modernize. Result: a net flow of capital from the subsidiaries to their U.S. headquarters rather than the reverse. No U.S. company has moved into South Africa since 1983. Less U.S. business activity in South Africa crimps...
...goods, which immediately became more expensive in dollar terms as the U.S. currency declined in worth and thus drove up the nation's import bill. As Americans lose some of their appetite for increasingly expensive foreign goods, importers are expected to cut back sharply on their orders. But that trend has been very slow to develop, and TIME's economists do not foresee a significant lowering of the trade deficit until 1987. One reason for the delay is that the dollar has not diminished in value at all against the currencies of such fast-growing exporters as South Korea...
...currently fashionable to blame political ills on the media, a trend that threatens the First Amendment and wrongly shifts the onus from politicians to their chroniclers and frequent adversaries. However, Hillson is right in observing ruefully that the news media decides which candidates are viable and ignores the rest, behavior hardly consistent with democratic ideals...
...long advocated federal activism note with irony that the traditional Republican principle of getting government off the back of its people has been subverted by the evangelical right, seemingly intent on transforming Big Brother into a bedroom busybody. Conservatives and many mainstream Americans, on the other hand, view the trend as a welcome response to the breakdown of sexual and family values. The reassertion of traditional moral values, they say, is part of a broad conservative realignment in the political process...