Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Strauch speculated that students are rejecting "the fixed boundaries" of quotas. "The trend is toward equal treatment of men and women, towards equal pay and equal access," he said...
...unconducive to equitable contract settlements have existed almost continuously since the United Mine Workers' inception in 1892. In the early' nineties the union won modest gains for its members until technological advances in the industry and a decline in coal prices reduced the coal companies' need for manpower. This trend continued through the 1950's when the introduction of such fully automated equipment as the "continuous miner" cut the ranks of the nation's coal miners from 400,000 to 120,000 men. When miners' jobs were threatened by technological advances it became difficult to win concessions from the mineowners...
Harvard is no exception to the national trend, and it seems that the left's joke about Harvard--that it's the training ground for the nation's ruling class--is now being taken seriously. People new talk of their post-graduation life in terms of Washington and Wall Street, and view Harvard as a good place to study because it will provide valuable contacts for their afterlife of politics or finance...
Last year's entering class made national news when 250 freshmen--almost 20 per cent of the class--signed a list at registration expressing interest in joining the Harvard Republican Club. Several articles in the New York Times cited that figure as evidence of a growing conservative trend at one-time bastions of liberalism like Harvard...
...museums, where trained specialists continually up-date and replace exhibits, there is a growing emphasis on an interpretative presentation of material rather than the mere display of objects. In the Truman museum an exciting exhibit--The Whistlestop Campaign of 1948--is an example of this new trend...