Word: trend
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...trend toward more school after high school has this year reached the point where, for the first time, the span of education of the average U.S. jobholder tops twelve years, but automation and technology are rapidly making that level inadequate. At the same time, job competition is soaring swiftly: a million more 18-year-olds will enter the nation's labor market this year than last. Applications for college enrollment next fall are expected to leap by a dramatic 40% over...
...more economical and avoids a "scarring" experience for the student who otherwise might flunk out of a four-year college, then enter a technical school. Flushed with their liberal arts success, some of the nation's junior colleges are already converting to regular four-year institutions -a trend that most educators earnestly deplore, since the community college then loses its own special functions, and too often becomes merely another second-rate four-year college...
...swimming meet was followed by two unscored experimental races--a 200-yd. individual medley and a 400-yd. freestyle contest. These races were part of a trend in women's swimming meets to lengthen the distance in some events...
Such possibilities are spurring the trend to simpler and less expensive recorders. Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp. is developing a home videotape recorder that it hopes to market for $500. Sony, which already sells expensive recorders to TV stations and airlines, plans to introduce a set in the U.S. this spring that will sell for about $1,000. Both Ampex and RCA are working on home recorders of their...
Devising major modern weapons has become such an expensive business that few nations can afford to get into it alone. Result: many of them in the free world are coming shopping in the U.S. The trend not only saves them a lot of money but creates business for U.S. corporations and helps the U.S. balance of payments problem by partially offsetting the high cost of the American military presence around the world. Last week even Britain put the pressure of escalating defense costs ahead of national pride; the Labor government decided to abandon the development of two military planes...