Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...example, the current popularity of Social Studies and other elite majors that admit limited numbers of students. Remember that sophomores living in the Yard under 1-1-2 would be housed with other in their concentration. A careful choice of dorms for sophomores in Soc Stud might reverse the trend in applications. Most suitable for Soc Stud would be Claverly Hall, which soaks up the ambience of Mt. Auburn traffic and often welcomes interesting outsiders from the streets. With this switch few freshmen would apply to Social Studies if seeking only association with its elite image or promised ego reinforcement...
Hills concedes that any change in 394 must be done carefully, but does not believe its abolition would mean the end of the N.Y.S.E. Even in advance of any change in the rule there are already signs of a trend away from the floor. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, the nation's largest broker, is on the verge of starting a plan under which it would trade odd-lot orders (those for fewer than 100 shares) in its own offices. That would save odd-lot buyers and sellers an eighth of a point price differential that they must...
...reversal of a trend, the value of Harvard's securities rose by a figure of 10 per cent, while it had dropped by 16 per cent in the previous year...
...their sympathy for Russian Jews, Brando passes up his Oscar for the sake of Native Americans, and the Basques help Franco destroy himself. Filmmakers have taken a renewed interest in the ethnic backgrounds of their protagonists, from Jimmy Cliff to the Corleones, and even prime time TV, exploiting the trend for all its worth, has its own Jeffersons and Bunkers, Chicos and Rhodas...
That quarter was marked by seven punts and the inability of either team to do anything offensively, and the trend continued until late in the last stanza when Harvard punter Jim Curry unloaded a tremendous shot which pinned B.U. back on its own 22, with just three minutes to go in the game...