Word: trend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best test of a college is whether its alumni continue to have a taste for learning-the very word alumnus comes from the Latin alere, to nourish. Toward this end, college reunions are more and more becoming occasions to heft brains rather than bottles. Now Dartmouth has capped the trend by announcing a full-scale Alumni College to run for two weeks next August...
...jobs every month-and half of them move to other towns or states in the process. The increased mobility of the labor force is drastically altering the 4,300 U.S. employment agencies, which until recently have usually limited their operations to a single city or region. Today's trend is to chain agencies, which process job openings and applicants nationally. The pioneer of the chains, and the biggest of them, is Philadelphia-based Snelling and Snelling, whose 119 offices in 29 states last year found jobs for 100,000 Americans and brought in $6,500,000 for the company...
...past year as a result of southern racism. And the racial conflicts of 1963 are only a prelude to the clashes that will probably occur in 1964. Federal authorities, by acting now and fully excercising their present legal weapons, may be able to curb, if not end, the present trend towards violence...
...Chile's government is conservative, but the popular trend is toward nationalization of copper mines owned by U.S. companies. A powerful and worrisome Communist Party controls 30% of Chilean voters, but Chile remains a solid U.S. friend...
...CAPITAL MARKETS. Recent corporate and municipal bond issues "went out the window" (sold quickly); experts expect this trend to continue...