Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...breaking away from the usual trend of the questions. I pointed out to Evert that if she won the Virginia Slims tournament, she would win more money win more money in a week ($15,000) than most 20-year-olds have earned in their lives. In fact, she had earned over $300,000 last year between winning and endorsements and very few 19-year-olds in the world earn that much money. The question I was leading up to was how did this affect her life? Did she buy something that she had always wanted, did she invest...
During the past 15 years, medicine has been entering the post-industrial era and corporate capitalism. It's becoming a social institution with increasing central federal funding. The trend and call from the leaders of medicine is to remove funding from individuals and independent projects and place it in the growing medical complex's hand. National health insurance foretells the coming unified and centralized medical system. All this raises the spectre of a centralized medical empire with as democratic a structure as IBM. The doctor sees his or her role changing from line advocate for the poor, sick and downtrodden...
...feels its change in attitudes are parallel to a national trend. Executives now speak of a retreat from Great Society optimism. They came to Harvard from schools and towns influenced by the sixties, and since they have been here they have become repulsed by the old paternalistic patching up of community problems...
...viewer. Herein lies one of snapshot photography's greatest pitfalls, however. At its best, the style is revealing of humanity in day to day existence, but at its worst, it seeks out human ugliness for sheer shock value. None of the photographs in The Snapshot are representative of this trend, but it is one which constantly recurs in amateur photography...
...price but of the costs to the gladiators? Also, in terms of any greater social benefit, is there less violent crime in Philadelphia the nights the Flyers are playing in the Spectrum? Until enough people decide it is not worth the price, we may expect little change in the trend toward increasing violence in hockey and other contact sports...