Word: trended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trend is the other way. Bender said in 1961, "We now have a much larger proportion of middle and upper-middle income candidates but have lost ground relatively, and probably absolutely, among the really low income families...
...hard-driving road program was imposing upon them. Since its founding two years ago, the federal Department of Transportation has been creeping toward a policy of taking a hard look at such costs of building roads before approving them. If he holds true to form Volpe will reverse this trend, making Federal road-building once again simply a matter of pouring concrete along lines dictated by traffic flows alone...
...adviser, last week emphasized that one of the new President's primary tasks will be to "check the serious deterioration in foreign trade." One way would be to block some of the $32.6 billion in imports now flowing into the U.S. That would also reverse a 35-year trend to liberalized trade -at a time the world is trading more than ever. Ultimately, the U.S. can ease its travail in trade only by increasing its productivity at home and pressing a vigorous drive to sell more abroad...
...book, Kennedy describes last fall's Pentagon demonstration "a disturbing symbol of developing trends among our dissenting youth"; the trend veers toward divisive and disrupting dissent opposed to the ideals of democracy. "The threat posed by the tactic of disruption," warns Kennedy, "is more than a disturbance of the peace; it is a threat to the invaluable contribution that the disaffected youth have made to their counry." He emphasizes that the system will not tolerate citizens who actively seek to oppose the established order and are intent on breaking the law to oppose' that order. Thus Kennedy, recognizing that those...
...same kind of confusion hits several other pieces. Chris Hart's "Jumping John" is a nice little parody of the modern-sordid school of writing, but like James Dickson's "The Modigliani Face," it relies for its humor on the dubious assumption that any real-life trend will be funny if exaggerated enough. Now that may be a sure-fire key to effective political satire (e.g. exaggerate the horrors of war and people will get fed up with it), but it doesn't always make for a good laugh. Dickson, by plugging in tidbits of humor-in-microcosm ("Brackley...worked...