Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many years forces have been slowly at work moving the members of the University faculties away from Cambridge. As early as 1903 President Eliot noted in his annual report that the living conditions of the faculty were deteriorating. This tendency has continued and become more pronounced. To reverse this trend, to re-establish a community of learning, apartment dwellings must be built for those students (some of them undergraduates) and younger members of the faculties who are married and have families. And for older members of the Faculty there are needs for many separate homes in the neighborhood...
...Hudson, which follows the industry trend to sportier style with a flashy, V-shaped grille, sweeping tailfins and a lower top that cuts overall height 2 in., to 60 in. Biggest engineering change: a new V-8 engine for the Hudson Hornet, which turns up 255 h.p., 35 h.p. more than last year, with a four-barrel carburetor and dual exhausts as standard equipment...
...Trend Reversed. Nevertheless, Austria still has its problems. To get the Russians to leave, it had to promise Moscow a ransom of $152 million in goods over the next ten years, plus 1,000,000 tons of oil annually for ten years. Moreover, pushed by the Socialists, the No. 2 party and junior member of every postwar coalition Cabinet, the country has become the most nationalized anywhere outside the Iron Curtain, with its iron, steel, aluminum and electric power industries wholly in government hands. About 33% of its investment capital is privately held...
Paradoxically, the 11-year-old trend to Socialism took place under the rule of the free-enterprising Volkspartei; it was the price that Austria's leading party (which lacked.an absolute majority) had to pay for Socialist support. But last spring Austria's voters took a look at the immense reconstruction job done by private enterprise despite government hobbles and, for the first time, gave the Volkspartei a whopping vote, just one seat short of a parliamentary majority. It was a clear mandate to roll back government control...
...child and the one-child family pattern so popular among college graduates a generation ago is being replaced by the three-or-more child family," the survey showed. This followed a national trend...