Word: trend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Juris Doctor) differs from the LL.B. only in name, and the curriculum at the Law School will not be affected by the change. The Faculty action reflects a national trend, and is intended to insure that Harvard Law graduates are not the victims of discrimination because they hold a supposedly inferior degree...
McLaren may not have an easy time cutting down the conglomerates. Their growth stems largely from the vagaries of antitrust law?and there is still considerable question about whether the Government has the legal power to stop the trend. Diversification by merger has long been an attractive tactic for industrialists who were anxious to reduce profit-sapping fluctuations in the demand for individual goods and services. It is easier and quicker to diversify by buying a going concern than by starting from scratch. But Government antitrust barriers often stand in the way of combinations within a company's own field...
...George) William Miller, 43, heads Textron Inc., the oldest and one of the soundest conglomerates, and he is an articulate critic of racier companies. Textron, which started the conglomerate trend nearly two decades ago, has acquired the kind of image that newer conglomerates covet. Miller picked up two more companies last year ?Talon zippers and Fafnir bearings?but Textron seems less interested in acquiring new branches than in managing and expanding the many that it already has. Its 33 diverse divisions turn out Bell helicopters, Sheaffer pens, Speidel watchbands, Gorham silverware, Bostitch staplers and some 70 other products. Last...
...railroads when they can net 15% in other industries. If this trend continues, some authorities fear that it will open the way for ultimate railroad nationalization in order to keep enough trains running to serve the public...
Cooper added that "financial aid today is following a consistently increasing trend that has no end in sight...