Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Morgan began slinging punches as the defender of "the people." He talked repeatedly about the trend of American life--and especially of the legal profession--away from the rights of individuals. "Lawyers start to think of themselves as different from the people--as a class unto themselves," he said...
Despite a national downward trend in graduate school applications to large, private universities, the Business School and the School of Design, as well as schools at MIT, have experienced an increase in applications this year...
...Faculty announced last Monday that the price of a Harvard-Radcliffe education will climb to $5350, an increase of more than 6 per cent from the 1973-74 rates, and all indications are that this upward trend will continue for some time...
Firms which refused to change with the times, Chandler said, lost their market dominance. Henry Ford, he said, stubbornly refused to follow the 1930s trend of other firms toward increasing managerial control and, as a consequence, lost a sizable part of its market share to General Motors...
Whatever happens to the official price, traders can see little that might bring the free-market price down soon. Production in South Africa, which mines most of the world's gold, has been declining in recent years as veins become played out-a trend that has helped keep the price up. Contrary to myth, however, gold purchasing is not without risk. The world supply available for trading is so small that the sudden sale of a few million dollars' worth could yet send the price plunging...