Word: trended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democratic disaster area, with conservatism the dominant motif. Regardless of his warm reception in North Carolina, Humphrey has lost even some moderate Southern leaders who helped nominate him. The urban machines in the North have been decaying for years, and Johnson has done nothing to reverse that trend. Working-class families grown affluent because of general prosperity are defecting to Nixon and Wallace. Negroes, while generally loyal, are distracted by the anti-Establishment mood of their militant elements and by grief over the loss of their favorite, Robert Kennedy. Some black voters may sit out the election...
...enough seats to join with Southern Democrats and deprive moderates and liberals of ideological control. In California and Iowa, contests will have considerable impact on the complexion of the Senate that convenes next January. In both, liberally oriented Democrats could win if they attract enough votes to withstand the trend to Nixon. A look at the two campaigns...
Faced with so many injuries, Munro deplored the increasing trend to roughness in soccer yesterday. He express hope that Hilary Worthen, a former regular, and Rollin McClain, who has progressed rapidly this fall, will be able to fill the gaps at fullback. Columbia is "always a headache," he said...
...assassination, the Justice Department counted 25 "serious to major" disturbances from June through August, compared with 46 during the same three-month period last year. The number of deaths went down from 87 to 19. The figures are hardly cause for rejoicing or complacency, but at least the trend is hopeful...
...transaction would involve trading five million shares of Xerox common stock, totaling $1.5 billion, for 19.8 million shares of C.I.T., which Xerox will value at around 70. With combined assets of $4.5 billion, the two companies are the most startling recent example of a business trend that is fast turning into a race: conglomerate mergers, or unions of companies in unrelated fields. Outwardly, Xerox and its fantastically successful photocopying machines (1967 sales: $700 million) may seem to have little in common with C.I.T., the nation's second largest finance company, which also has interests in insurance, banking and consumer...