Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aggressive championing of middle-class values may alienate working-class voters. Under the leadership of Macmillan, Home and Heath, the Conservatives had increasingly modified their traditional commitment to free-market policies, accepting a degree of both social welfarism and state interference in business. Mrs. Thatcher wants to reverse that trend and spearhead a return to a more traditional Tory credo: "I believe that a person who is prepared to work harder should receive greater rewards and keep them after tax. I believe that we should back the workers and not the shirkers; that it is not only permissible but praiseworthy...
DuBois who returned to the United States this month after four years in Egypt, urged students to study Arabic and warned against a "trend to anti-intellectualism...
DuBois, who urged black students to study Arabic, warned of "a trend to anti-intellectualism that tends to crop up among our people...
...combination of factors encouraged this discouraging trend. Professors retired or left Harvard for personal reasons. Assistant professors, even those who have found time to offer large General Education courses, frequently do not receive tenure and leave, taking their courses with them. In his letter to the Faculty last October, Dean Rosovsky cited important factors that have altered the needs of both faculty and students, among them the recent exponential growth of knowledge, the expanded research function of the university, and ever-increasing preprofessionalism amongst students...
...beginning to find less favor with readers-and with cartoonists. Says Bill Mauldin, at 53 a. 35-year veteran of the editorial page: "Cartoons are getting better, more and more away from labels. Readers are more savvy. It is less and less necessary to put names on things. The trend is more interesting drawing, less complicated captions." To sharpen his point, Mauldin spent last semester teaching a course in his profession at Yale. "I deliberately started with a nondrawing bunch," recalls the most technically proficient cartoonist of his generation. "What counts is the thinking. A drawing with authority helps give...