Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then purposefully ignoring their political causes. Bok attempts to explain these failures as a result--at least in part--of big government arising out of the New Deal, which in turn has created several administrative problems in government. It is not only the general trend in government that necessitates this "new profession," according to Bok, but "tendencies at work in public employment...
Promised Land. Yet many conservatives are not so concerned with winning as with making their point. They are convinced that the long-range trend is toward conservatism in America. They want to lead the way to the promised land without much regard for the losses suffered en route. Says a conservative who participated in the Buckley meeting: "We've got to be successful with Ford-or we can't hold them back. The dam will break...
...university administrator had nothing to do with anything." Saxon, 55, will soon have ample opportunity to find out if he was right. It has just been announced that in July he will take over as president of the nine-campus, 122,436-student University of California, a trend setter in U.S. higher education...
...said at his press conference this week that the two joint statements are not indicative of any particular administrative trend...
...academic and peer pressure to produce theses is waning in many departments, [see page 1], the trend may be reflected in the advice seniors receive. One senior tutor says he advises those who come to him with doubts about their thesis to drop it unless they find it exciting. "I've seen too many seniors drag their ass through February and March, not getting anything out of it, because they didn't have the courage to drop it in January," he says...