Word: trend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yesterday's merger recommendation follows a trend toward total coeducation that really began only out of necessity during World War II. Even then, it was a man--Radcliffe President Wilbur K. Jordan--who had to make the first moves. In 1943, coeducational classes began when Harvard agreed to assume responsibility for all instruction and Radcliffe agreed to split its tuition with Harvard...
...veteran of two other alliances with pretty young things, and now married to 26-year-old Cathleen Heffernan. The recent marriage of South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond, 66, and Nancy Janice Moore, 22, a former Miss South Carolina, suggests that even hard-shell Baptists may join a trend that once seemed confined to jet-setters. The Thurmonds typify a tendency of many May-December couples: they strive to be more normal than normal. "I love her and I'm very happy," says Thurmond. "We have so many things in common." Says Nancy: "We're such good...
...Federal Trade Commission is delving into the various economic implications of the conglomerate trend. Antitrust subcommittees in both the Senate and House plan probing inquiries of their own. The Justice Department is studying whether to recommend broader antitrust legislation to cope with conglomerates. Paradoxically, the trend has been fostered by Government antitrust barriers against mergers within the same field. More and more firms with little in common are getting together because it is the only legally safe way to merge...
Looking tanned and relaxed in the taped appearance, Reagan explained that all increases next year are "fully necessary" to cover increases in the population and inflation. Then, announcing the $100 million income tax reduction, he beamed proudly: "I believe we have started what we hope will be a new trend in government finances...
...courts to set curfews for certain defendants, to require them to report regularly to court officers and to prohibit them from carrying a weapon or other acts that might bring trouble. The Vera Institute of Justice, a nonprofit research group seeking to modernize legal procedures, started a trend away from money bail in Manhattan, is now offering job training and counseling to some of those who are released on their own word...