Word: trend
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...freshmen, Radcliffe women are not particularly high in the fear of success, but they score significantly higher as seniors. Apparently something happens here that makes them less self-confident than when they came in. The same trend does not occur at other schools where women decrease in fear of success from freshman to senior year. So there is something wrong about the climate at Harvard and Radcliffe...
...exact figures are hard to come by, the general trend is nonetheless apparent. My cousin's ticket came from her father's friend, a businessman who once pitched minor league ball and now throws batting practice for the Red Sox before gametime. Almost everyone at the first game of the Series had some similar story of at least vague ties to VIP's. A friend of mine got his ticket from a friend of his who had an acquaintance in the Fly Club, to which several tickets had been donated by an Fly alumnus who had once owned part...
Slimmer Waistlines. The trend has Government encouragement-indeed prodding. Nancy Harvey Steorts, special assistant for consumer affairs to Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz, advanced the idea a year ago in a speech to the National Association of Meat Purveyors and shortly after persuaded the Camelback Inn to test the plan. Since then she has traveled round the country evangelizing smaller portions. She argues that they will help consumers slim their waistlines and cut food bills, bolster restaurant profits by selling additional dinners, and that "the tiniest bit of wasted food cannot be justified when an estimated 1½ billion people...
Many restaurants are reluctant to adopt the plan. Their managers wonder if customers really want smaller portions, and are not sure that selling them will raise profits, since they mean a lower average price collected from each diner. But some experts believe the trend toward smaller servings will accelerate. Says James W. McLamore, president of the National Restaurant Association: "An earlier ethic of conspicuous consumption may be giving way to a current ethic of 'conspicuous conservation.' " The doggy bag just...
Across the country, then, divinity schools connected with major universities have been dropping their Th.D.s or changing them to Ph.D.s, and Harvard appears to be on the brink of joining the trend...