Word: trend
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Severest Control. To Harold Wilson there seemed no alternative. During Labor's two years in office, wages of British workers rose 21 times faster than productivity. It was the continuation of a decade-old trend that has priced many British goods out of the world market, brought inflation at home, and imperiled the value of the pound sterling (TIME ESSAY, Sept...
Opponents insist that the use of class ranks has the effect of increasing pressure and competition for grades at the expense of more relevant aspects of education. While the trend at Harvard and at universities all over the country has been to de-emphasize grades, the effect of considering them in determining deferments has been to increase their importance. Thus, it is argued, class ranks must not be sent to the draft board, even if indirectly, or students will naturally seek out easier, more familiar, and less challenging courses...
...most recent cut in service is consistent with the trend in recent years. Services have been steadily reduced since 1942, when a maid visited each student's room every day. More responsibility for keeping rooms neat and clean has gone to the students, who have not always responded with equal efficiency...
Today, if the novel and the stage are dominated by any one theme, it is the psychology of alienation, in which human crisis is explained not by a single case history but by a sort of cosmic hypochondria, a feeling of universal futility. This trend seems to be reflected in clinical experience. The old compulsion neuroses and guilt feelings, many psychologists report, are being replaced by diffuse anxiety neuroses and a vague sense of meaninglessness. According to Chicago Psychiatrist Dr. Marvin Ziporyn, the new fashion in popular psychology "reflects a greater interest in social interrelationships-it's more outward...
...Naked Ambition." From that new position, says the courtly Kentuckian who is still Mr. Krock to most Timesmen, many things seem to have changed for the worse. He deplores the powerful unions that have helped to kill some papers, and he dislikes the trend toward specialization among reporters. Not that some of the specialists are not superb, but where is "the old general-assignment man with the cold objectivity in questioning officials?" Today's reporters, says Krock, "frame questions on an argumentative basis instead of primarily to elicit information...