Word: trended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number of movie houses in the U.S. increased to 13,400, up 400 over last year. The trend is toward shopping-center sites in the suburbs, where 75% of the new houses are located...
...scene. A burgeoning, largely uncontrolled traffic in guns has put firearms into some 50 million American homes, many of their owners insisting that the weapons are needed for self-defense. In the movies and on television, murder and torture seem to be turning Americans into parlor sadists. A recent trend on the stage is the "theater of cruelty," and a growing number of books delve into the pornography of violence...
Jakobson is an international authority on Slavic languages, literatures, and cultures. He was one of the founders of the Slavic Formalist School of Literary Scholarship and a leader in the structural trend in linguistics and poetics. He has published over 350 books and articles...
...Trend to the Vernacular. Under the Economist's articles of incorporation, no one shareholder is allowed to own more than 50% of the total stock. Currently, 50% is held by S. Pearson industries Ltd., a diversified holding company (pumps, pottery, publishing), that also owns the London Financial Times. For a British publication, the Economist is heavily staffed: a total of 40 writers and editors in London. In the rest of the world, it is very lightly staffed. It has one man in Washington, one in Paris, one in Bonn, and one in Vienna who covers all of Eastern Europe...
...limitations which were imposed shortly after the coup last April 21 were never more than a token sign of displeasure but the current trend toward complete restoration of favor is an even more disheartening sign. Greece and its military rulers depend heavily upon military assistance from the U.S., which has supplied $1.3 billion in such aid since 1950. In recent years, it has been about $80 million annually...