This year-to-year decline for Dallas County closely follows the national trend -- estimated sales of domestic cars in the U.S. for first three months of 1961 were about 1,212,000 or 80 per cent of the total in the first quarter a year earlier.

The trend of releasing director's cuts was first introduced in the early 1980s alongside the rise of the home video industry.

The first half of the 20th century saw a trend to increasing engine power, particularly in the American models.

J. Philippe Rushton has argued that the effect should be called the " Lynn-Flynn effect ", after Richard Lynn, " because it was actually the Lynn ( 1982 ) article in Nature that first identified the trend in recent times ( amongst the Japanese ).

Experts continue to debate the significance and risk of such levels, though the trend has been to recommend maintenance of glucose levels above 60 – 70 mg / dL the first day after birth.

The first half of the 19th century for Europe was marked by a number of wars and revolutions, which contributed to a turning from the realities of the political and social fragmentation that were taking place, and a further trend towards Romanticism.

: set forth one of the first expansive theoretical treatments of Postmodernism as a historical period, intellectual trend and social phenomenon in a series of lectures at the Whitney Museum, later expanded as Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism ( 1991 ).

The Tokyo Midtown project, which was completed in 2006, and includes the first Tokyo Ritz-Carlton Hotel, continued this trend.

As one of the first of the structural analysis of language, which became the dominant trend of linguistics during the first half of the twentieth-century, Jakobson was among the most influential linguists of the century.

Orbison became one of the first recording artists to popularize the Nashville Sound, a trend of country and pop crossover music that used session musicians dubbed the A-Team: guitarists Grady Martin, Harold Bradley, Ray Edenton, and Bob Moore ; pianists Floyd Cramer or Hargus " Pig " Robbins ; drummer Buddy Harman ; and backup vocals by the Jordanaires or the Anita Kerr Singers.

However, this trend has now reversed itself and has shown its first increase in many years in the 2011 census.

This trend was started by Darryl F. Zanuck's production The Longest Day in 1962, based on the first day of the 1944 D-Day landings.

The crisis saw the first instance of stagflation which began a political and economic trend of the replacement of Keynesian economic theory with neoliberal economic theory, with the first neoliberal governments being created in Chile, where a military coup led by Augusto Pinochet took place in 1973.

* The northern French city of Troyes issues its first recorded life annuities, confirming the trend of consolidation of local public debts initiated in 1218 by the neighboring city of Reims.

* The city of Tournai emits its first recorded life annuity, thus confirming a trend of consolidation of public debts started ten years earlier in Rheims.

* The Flemish town of Douai emits the first recorded redeemable annuities in medieval Europe, confirming a trend of consolidation of local public debt stated in 1218 in Rheims.

Particularly in ice dancing judges traditionally gave extra leeway to the current champion regardless of recent mistakes, as well as a trend of setting an order after the first compulsory dance and sticking to it.

For men and women of working age the death rate trend diverged, however, leading to increased excess male mortality during the first half of the century.

* In Ghent, first recorded instance of emission of life annuities by a town in the Low Countries, this event confirms a trend of consolidation of local public debt in north-western Europe initiated in 1218 by Rheims.

It is the first instance of issue of public debt in Germany and it confirms a trend of consolidation of local public debt over north-western Europe ( see 1228 ).

The Studite situation mirrored a general trend, with a number of bishops and abbots at first willing to reach a compromise with the iconoclasts, but then in the years between 816 and 819 renouncing the iconoclast position, a movement that was perhaps motivated by the martyrdom of the Studite monk Thaddaios.

7-Eleven began the trend of convenience stores in Singapore when it opened its first store in 1982 by Jardine Matheson Group, under a franchise agreement with Southland Corporation of the United States.

The liberal trend spread to some nations in Africa in the 1990s, most prominently in South Africa.

This trend soon spread outside of Italy, for example Louis III, Elector Palatine founded the Bibliotheca Palatina of Heidelberg.

Recent decades have seen this trend spread to European nations such as the Czech Republic.

Some were part of an emerging trend that combined research into physical movement and overall health, for example Eurythmy ensembles in Stuttgart that spread to other schools.

) The leporids first appeared in the late Eocene and rapidly spread throughout the northern hemisphere ; they show a trend towards increasingly long hind limbs as the modern leaping gait developed.

The spread of the Dutch or Low German form to Middle Norwegian, Middle Danish and late Middle English or Early Modern English are part of a larger linguistic trend due to the influence of the Hanseatic League during this period.

File: NAMA-Statue of a sleeping Maenad 04. JPG | Statue of a sleeping Maenad, lying on a panther skin spread on a rocky surface ; the type is known as the reclining Hermaphrodite ; Pentelic marble ; found at the south of the Athenian Acropolis ; Hadrianic time ( 117-138 AD ), follows a classical trend in the attic art ; National Archaeological Museum, Athens.

The day ( also known as Dress-down Friday, or simply Casual day ) is an American and Canadian trend which for a time spread to other parts of the world, wherein some offices may celebrate a semi-reprieve from the constrictions of a formal dress code.

Later, this trend spread into Hindu communities, resulting in baccra music.

Owing to Quant's position in the heart of fashionable " Swinging London ", the miniskirt was able to spread beyond a simple street fashion into a major international trend.

This trend slowly spread to become common among unmarried young women.

As with any major lifestyle trend in the U. S., the " bar " trend promptly spread to Canada.

Nonetheless, Abigail and Betty ’ s trend of accusing innocents rapidly spread throughout Salem and nearby villages ( especially Andover ), leading to the death of several innocent people.

As from 1976, the issued 12 ″ single trend spread to Jamaica, where hundreds of reggae 12 ″ singles were pressed and commercially issued as " discomix " to catch on the disco hype.

This spread north was also representative of a larger trend.

The term and trend spread to the United States in the 1980s where it eventually was used as a designation of breweries that produce fewer than ( 475000 US gal ) annually.

The popularity of these products was such that the trend quickly spread, and hundreds of small breweries sprang up, often attached to a bar ( known as a " brewpub ") where the product could be sold directly.

This trend became so common, that the term tsuyudaku quickly spread among proprietors of popular gyūdon chains.

In the 1990s, technological advances facilitated social change and development – new media outlets began to emerge, cable TV signal coverage spread over more regions, and as the presence of communication firms grew so did an echoed global trend from major corporations.

One of the reasons the Riksdag pushed ahead with Dagen H despite public unpopularity was that most vehicles in Sweden at the time used inexpensive, standardized round headlamps, but the trend towards more expensive model-specific headlamps had begun in Continental Europe and was expected to spread through most other parts of the world.

This trend of inhaling snuff through the nose also spread to Sweden at the beginning of the 17th century.

This trend grew exponentially after Ermac ’ s death, as his legend spread through the domain rapidly and, with it, the news of a land rich and furs and vulnerable to Russian influence.

As with boot-cut hems, the trend began in Europe and spread rapidly around the world.