Word: cutback
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only professionalism from among the traditional callings. Law school, to be sure, seems to be gaining ground, but graduate school isn't even holding its own. Many students, of course, are simply not inclined. But for those who are, there just aren't enough seats: they not only say cutback, they do it. And even if you don't think the recession is permanent--though there is every reason to think so--there simply won't be as many students in the generation behind us who will need teachers, making the prospect of graduate study more and more remote...
Raising the grade level for honors is not expected to have much impact. Pipkin says that if the proposed standards had been applied to the Class of '74, there would have been only a minimal cutback in the number of cums and magnas awarded. Raising the grade level is only recognition of general grade inflation, he adds...
...which gave rise to popular disaffection (since our polarized opinions could not be accommodated by the government). The public has thus developed expectations which are impossible for the governing elites to satisfy. The solution, according to the author of the U.S. forced-draft urbanization program in Vietnam, entails a cutback on democratic decision-making in areas like universities where the "claims of expertise, seniority, experience and special talents" cancel out the "claims of democracy." Huntington also hopes that some measure of "apathy and non-involvement on the part of some individuals and groups" will replace the activism...
...COMMITTEE on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) did well last week in defeating the proposed cutback in the number of dining halls serving full breakfasts...
...think," says Ford, "that there will be an improvement in the method by which we handle this without any cutback in the money." And, he predicts, "the Governors will wrap their arms around this idea...