Word: trend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those who took the exam last year, 73 per cent of Harvard Law School graduates passed, a decline of several per cent from previous years. Percentages from Yale and Columbia were slightly lower, but similar. However, 79 per cent of New York University graduates passed, reflecting a trend toward better performance on the exam by lawyers trained in local New York schools...
...recent years, said Rusk, "an important new trend has been perceptible. Some of the Communist governments have become responsive, in varying degrees if not directly, to the aspirations of their subjects, at least to kindred aspirations of their own. The Communist world is no longer a single flock of sheep following blindly behind one leader." Thus, he said, U.S. objectives can best be served by "adjusting our policies to the differing behavior of different Communist states-or to the changing behavior of the same state...
Children are in fact the most excellent and obvious reason for the trend. Dr. and Mrs. John Mumma of Bellingham, Wash., have nine, but there is plenty of running, jumping, dancing and shouting room in their magnificent 1903 mansion. The 30-foot-high ballroom is now more of a gym than anything else, but, says Mumma, "it will pay for itself through eight home weddings for the girls." The three children of Harvard Professor Jean-Claude Martin were comfortable in a six-room house, but they are blooming in the 17-room baroque relic of the 1870s that he bought...
...those in the U.S. One of the sharpest issues in Europe, as in the U.S., is the shorter work week-except that European workers are trying to pull their work time down from about 47 hours to near 40, while U.S. unions argue for a 35-hour week. The trend is also toward U.S.-style two-and three-year contracts that include built-in annual pay hikes. In Britain, 20% of the work force now comes under such long-term agreements, which help to cut down the disruption wrought by yearly battles...
...general, the trend has been hampered by the lack of unified Common Market laws, by the fact that so many European companies are family-owned, and by restrictions on capital transfers. In order to get together and yet not violate national laws, Gevaert and Agfa had to set up separate jointly owned companies in both Belgium and West Germany...