Word: trend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...article in the New York Times yesterday reported an Ivy league trend of increasing applications and acceptances of black applicants...
...concerned with security that treatment staffs can barely function," I object to your implication that the custodial function is antithetic to the good cause of social rehabilitation. Most criminal psychologists agree that a "sense of being punished" is a necessary precedent to true rehabilitation. In view of the trend to establish "country club" prisons, the only way the felon can gain a sense of punishment is by frequent sight of uniformed "keepers." Far from opposing or inhibiting rehabilitation, the custodial staffs are more responsible for eventual rehabilitation than any number of care-and-treatment specialists. The inmates themselves relate...
...their goal of an immediate N.L.F. takeover of the South coupled with a prompt and total end of U.S. involvement in the country's future. For its part, the U.S. would have to face up to the possibility of a new alignment in Southeast Asia in which the trend would be toward neutralization. In this framework, South Viet Nam might eventually come under the North's control...
...Given the present trend, nearly all our major cities will soon have black or near black majorities, while whites move out to the suburbs in increasing numbers," Chester W. Hartman, assistant professor of City Planning, told a crowd of nearly 500 earlier in the day. "There are not many who actually benefit economically from such a system of segregation; the gains are primarily psychological or social...
...sure; at a cost approaching $25,000 apiece, each machine had been modified for racing with the addition of everything from a souped-up 440-h.p. engine to disk brakes on all four wheels. Yet the cars merely mirrored, albeit on a grand scale, a burgeoning off-track trend toward faster road cars-and Ralph Nader be damned...