Word: trended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cities are ever to become strong enough to reverse this trend toward polarization and cope with their other difficulties, the Douglas report argues, overlapping local governments must be simplified and streamlined. There is now an average of 90 separate units of government for each urban area in the U.S. with more than 50,000 people; metropolitan Chicago has a paralyzing total of 1,113. Building codes and zoning regulations are confusing, often contradictory. Adequate housing is still a chimera for most urban low-income families (and increasingly so for the middle class as well...
...those parts of South America still untouched by the takeover trend, civilian statesmen are understandably eying their own military establishments for any signs of a desire to run the country themselves. In Chile, far-leftists, who made a strong showing in the presidential election last time, incite fears of a coup. They may do even better in the 1970 presidential balloting. As a result, there are rumors that the Chilean military is receiving advice from brother officers in neighboring countries to seize on the Communist threat as an excuse to take power. Such reports may be groundless, but they reflect...
...trend in music moved away from virile counterpoint toward softer melody and simple accompaniment, from rich harmonic modulations toward more basic cadences, and from daring elaboration toward the cultivation of controlled elegance. Bach's composer sons-notably Carl Philipp Emanuel, Johann Christian and Wilhelm Friedemann -were all attracted to this style. After his death, Bach was mourned as a fine organist and teacher, but for 70 years his reputation as a composer was kept alive only by a few enthusiasts and composers, notably Mozart and Beethoven...
...turning down business from the small investor. So widespread is the move to eliminate the little man that President Robert Haack of the New York Stock Ex change, speaking to a group of civic leaders last week in Los Angeles, declared that the Exchange "vigorously deplores" the trend and might "be forced" to take action...
...cent of the others. Forty-six per cent of the preppies scored below 650 while only 12 per cent of the others did. In Loewen's Sample 61 per cent of the alumni sons fell below Group 3 compared with 32 per cent of the others. For preppies the trend was weaker but still obvious. Nineteen pre cent were Group 2 as compared with 20 per cent of the others 41 per cent fell below Group 3 as opposed to 34 per cent of the others...