Word: trend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lincoln Day, presently involved in research at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital with the School of Public Health, will teach Soc Sci 125. "Population and Social Change." The Fall-term course will deal with the determinants and consequences of population characteristics and trend. The study of these trends is intended to provide the student with a frame of reference, firmly grounded in demographic fact, for understanding the past developments and future prospects of human society...
Said Johnson: "Our streets must be safe. Our homes and places of business must be secure." To "arrest and reverse the trend," he called for new laws that would...
...Hoffmann rejected the idea of concentrating wholly on internal reform. First, and most important, it seemed an impractical idea. The ambitious academic, in search of tenure or professional prestige, shied away from the cross-disciplinary approach, just as he now rebels against teaching Gen Ed courses. To buck this trend in each department was beyond the power and energy of even a Hoffmann or Gerschenkron...
...going to public junior colleges. While the bulk of financial support for such public colleges still comes from funds of local communities, state aid is generally increasing. At the same time, administration of these colleges is shifting away from the regular local school boards to independent college boards-a trend that provides a desirable separation from the high school...
...past decade, no fewer than a million Americans seeking the sun have bought homes in Florida. Even more have taken the half step of buying land -for retirement, for future vacations, or merely for an investment. Now the trend is spreading overseas. From Caracas to Hong Kong, thousands of foreigners are buying palm-fringed lots in Florida, a place that most of them have never seen...