Word: trended
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Adoption by a single parent is a new trend growing out of the soaring illegitimacy rate. Adoption agencies, no longer able to be so choosy in selecting foster parents, have decided that half a home is better than none. This is especially true where the child is older or is of racially mixed parentage-situations in which adoptive couples are often impossible to come by. Explains Walter A. Heath, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Adoptions, which pioneered single adoption two years ago and has already placed 42 orphans: "They were all children for whom two parents just...
...both conception and execution, Bonnie and Clyde is a watershed picture, the kind that signals a new style, a new trend. An early example of this was Birth of a Nation, which still stands alone; it gave American cinema an epic sense of the nation's history. Orson Welles' Citizen Kane was another watershed film, with its stunning use of deep-focus photography and its merciless character analysis of that special U.S. phenomenon, the self-made mogul. John Ford's Stagecoach brought the western up from the dwarfed adolescence of cowboy-and-Injun adventures to the maturity...
Nevertheless, the trend seems to be toward more demographic analysis and away from numbers alone. Apart from that, sponsors find CBS a little more expensive than its two rivals. Ratings success is spoiling not only CBS's time sales but also the established stars of the long-running hits behind that success. The headliners hold out for salary boosts that force the network to charge higher prices for those shows than their ratings alone would command. CBS, which bills itself as "The Network of the Stars," gets slightly more than $50,000 per average prime-time minute; NBC asks...
...Central American and Carribean nations have managed to thwart the will of the hemisphere's great powers--the U.S., Brazil and Argentina--on the choice of a successor. This is an unprecedented development in the history of the organization, and it may set an important trend for the future...
...trend towards political action is still very small in PBH. The executive board did suggest to the committee chairmen at the time of the Vietnam Referendum that they consider allowing volunteers to canvass for votes instead of fulfilling their PBH responsibilities. They also had PBH cars available to students going down to the peace march in Washington...