Word: trend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That was an extraordinarily good cover piece on Black and the Supreme Court. Although you quite properly quote Paul Freund, Frankfurter's disciple and successor at Harvard, as somewhat critical of the Court's new activist trend, you also quote to the same effect an unnamed Yale professor, thus giving the impression that Yale shares Harvard's disquiet. But the fact is that the man you quote is, like Freund, Harvard-and-Frankfurter trained and oriented...
...faring badly in most of the world. So reports the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, which keeps a close watch on the world's food supply. While the world population increased another 2% last year - to 3.218 billion - farm production continued to follow a laggardly trend, rising barely 1%. Chief reasons for the poor performance: bad weather and primitive, inefficient farming methods. Harvests were poor in the developing nations that most need good crops if they are to have any hope of improving their economies. As a result, living costs increased in 74 of the 85 nations surveyed...
...choice, and the themes of the West are only part of a program which emphasizes methodology as much as historical content, quantitative analysis as much as an appreciation of the qualitative values of our past. Moreover, the broad explosion of knowledge in the past two decades with a corresponding trend towards specialized, highly technical research has been the force that has put General Education at Harvard out of joint...
These administrative changes only reflected more significant forces working against the idea of General Education. In the past twenty years there has been an explosion of knowledge with a corresponding trend towards specialized, highly technical research. As a result, students have felt the urge to plunge immediately into intensive study or--even worse for Gen Ed--have begun, along with many faculty members, to scorn the material taught in these required courses as superficial, in fact, misleading. And the pressure to advanced research has kept many professors from giving time to so basic a venture...
...unconcerned if discounters ogle Mrs. Macy: it generally meets their prices on hard goods, including appliances. Though Macy's still pushes its own brands at roughly 10% less than major national brands, it also stocks more national brands. Macy's keeps customers loyal by recognizing a trend toward more spending on services and offering services that discounters lack. It has a theater-ticket agency, a travel service and a currency-exchange post for foreign travelers, also offers all kinds of custom services: Macy's will remodel houses, restring tennis rackets, make up hooked rugs to size...