Word: trending
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...economic problems, social and racial tensions aggravated businessmen's distress in 1970. Shoplifting has tripled since 1959. The trend alarms many merchants, who point out that pilferage now costs them-and their customers-2½? out of every dollar of sales. Insurance executives, defending themselves against the public outcry over mass cancellations of burglary and fire policies, argue that private companies can hardly be expected to absorb the cost of crime and urban violence...
...some 24 million since the 1960 calculation. But the increase-13.3%-was the lowest in any decade since the low birthrate days of the Depression. For one thing, those relatively fewer babies born in the '30s are now of the child-bearing generation of the '60s; a trend toward smaller families helped to diminish the sum further. It was enough to encourage watchers of the population clock. They may not have forgotten, however, that William the Conqueror's original census in 1087 was called, with a certain prophetic ring, the Doomsday Book...
...full costs of education without becoming retreats for the rich. Last spring the Nixon Administration proposed one version of such a plan, but congressional approval has been delayed by the preference of many state colleges for grants to institutions rather than students. Whatever the answer, says Cheit, the current trend is clear: most U.S. campuses face "serious problems of retrenchment and readjustment...
...turn in my uniform." After cinching the Rose Bowl bid, Stanford lost its final two games -a letdown that the players regretted because "it might hurt Jim in the Heisman voting." It did not. Historically, Heisman winners have not fared well in the pros. But that is one trend Plunkett aims to correct: "I would like to start playing immediately," he says. "I don't want to come up to the pros and sit on the bench. You can't win there...
...that South Vietnam's urban centers haven't witnessed anti-war activity in the past. Even after the 1968 Tet offensive, however, public opposition to the fighting remained weak and sporadic; the regime had little trouble silencing its antagonists. Then, early in 1970, a new trend developed. Initially centered on rather specific, often personal grievances, it has evolved into a concerted movement for peace that has so far proved impossible to exorcise. A few of the more dramatic events reflecting this trend were dealt with briefly by the U.S. press. But such fragmentary accounts conveyed little of the urgency...