Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More Harvard students are taking leaves of absence this year than ever before, bucking a national trend that shows college students taking fewer leaves...
...developed between the women's and men's teams. The Harvard team, Murphy said, thinks "we're real swimmers, not just splashing around in the water." The two teams will travel to Dartmouth together this year for meets, and Murphy said she hopes this will start a future trend...
Some typists have raised their prices within the last six months but there has not been a steady trend of increases. Tom Armstrong has raised his prices from 60 cents to 75 cents within the past year, while Mulberry Typing has not changed its standard $1-per-page rate during its one-and-a-half year existence...
Women are committing mostly petty offenses−only one in six homicides is attributed to a woman−but criminologists expect them to work their way up (or down) the ladder. Sociologist Francis lanni of Columbia University believes this trend is the "criminal analogue of the women's liberation movement. As in business, politics and education, there will be equal opportunities in crime. You can't have Bella Abzugs without Bonnie Parkers...
Some of the implications from this solution are obvious and have already raised student ire at the Design School and Yale. Sooner or later students here are also going to begin to notice the trend...