Word: trended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crippling Trend. McNamara's plans are destined to undergo considerable trimming in Congress, where presidential pleas for a tax increase have been countered by demands for $6 billion in spending cuts-half of which probably will come from next year's defense budget and from some $22 billion in procurement funds for the development and purchase of future weapons systems. The Senate has pared $660 million from the procurement bill, which faces additional surgery in the House...
...parsimonious mood of Congress, McNamara is criticized for having failed to allot enough defense funds for long-range planning. For three years, the war has forced the Pentagon to skimp on research and development. Says John S. Foster Jr., 45, director of defense research and engineering: "If this trend were allowed to continue, our national technological position soon would be crippled...
...home building, and split profits with Brown & Kauffmann. Most of the money is to be borrowed from Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. at a rate (71%) well below that which the home-building firm might itself have had to pay. Though small companies still dominate the housing business, the trend is running clearly in the other direction...
...right, what exactly are the statistics? At Harvard a once downward trend in the numbers of those planning on business as a career and those attending graduate business school has been reversed of late. More students every year are going into business from the "better" colleges. Enrollment in business curricula in this country jumped 15 per cent in 1965. At the same time, the demands for these people are increasing rapidly, and unfilled demand creates the impression of dwindling supply...
...activities, spend more time on social life, and are less grade-oriented than the academically-oriented students, who tend to be less suited to business careers anyway. This may well be the case in many circumstances, but it is too easy an explanation to wipe out the basic statistical trend...