Word: decays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fast-rising land prices also aggravate urban decay, suburban sprawl and even the energy shortage. Real estate developers often "leapfrog" over expensive land close to cities to find cheaper sites farther out; on the outskirts of Phoenix, houses are climbing mountainsides. The less expensive houses in those distant areas lure residents and businesses from the city, reducing the urban tax base. Mass transportation is uneconomical in the far suburbs; so their residents become totally dependent on the auto, increasing the strain on the nation's fuel supplies...
Watergate is America's Dreyfus Affair, a symptom of moral decay. During the Ervin hearings, Nixon aide after Nixon aide demonstrated to all the world the distance that has developed between the cause of the president of the United States and the cause of justice...
...last two years, Harvard undergraduates appear to have become somewhat more interested in taking, vocational courses, at least vocational courses of a sort. This results partly from a growing interest in medicine; partly from a job market that is growing permanently tighter; partly from the evident decay of student interest in other things (such as radical politics); and partly from a complementary trend for Harvard types to look for more private means of satisfaction...
...third agent contributing to students' increased vocational interest--the decay of political consciousness--is perhaps the most obvious, but also the most difficult factor to define. Certainly the style of the Harvard student has changed markedly in the last ten years, but his vocational inclinations do not seem to have undergone a parallel shift. Before, during and after the strikes of 1960 and 1970 about the same number of seniors planned to become lawyers and doctors...
...agreed with the statement that "Watergate shows how even the privacy of ordinary people is being threatened these days." Somewhat mysteriously, 70% said that it also indicated that "big business misuses its influence and controls the country." And 67% saw Watergate as "part of a general climate of moral decay in which people feel that they can get away with anything...