Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This parallels the current trend in Harvard admissions...
...National Liberation Front welcomed the return of peace to Vietnam, for it expected that the end of the war would reverse a trend in South Vietnamese society which had strengthened Nguyen Van Thieu's position at its expense. Ten years of brutal warfare in the Vietnamese countryside, heightened savagely by the continual rain of American bombs, had herded the peasants into the disease-ridden shantytowns which ring Vietnamese cities. There Thieu's enormous police force could keep watch over them and insulate them from NLF influence. But with the end of the war, the NLF hoped the peasants could return...
...college teacher, I can suggest a reason for the downward trend in Scholastic Aptitude Tests scores overlooked in the article [Dec. 31]. It is the pervasive narcissism of our contemporary culture that deflects today's capable youth from mastering the accumulated knowledge of the past, which is the province of higher education. Scholastic aptitude is not aptitude for finding "the real me" in sensitivity to adolescent angst, or in self-serving activism for student rights. Since these are the major concern of brighter young people today, is it any wonder that traditional measurements reflect what they...
...other paper. News and financial items are ticked off with smart, bulletin-like precision. These columns are bracketed by serious financial comment, offbeat personality profiles and flights of pop sociology. In a given week, the Journal's left-hand column will take up subjects as diverse as the trend toward naming rival products in advertising, and the not-quite-emerging nation of Afghanistan (Headline: DO THE RUSSIANS COVET AFGHANISTAN? IF SO, IT'S HARD TO FIGURE...
McAdam is one of about 1,500 transexuals in the U.S. who have changed their sex by surgery. Because most sex change operations are done confidentially, the exact number is hard to determine. But the trend is clear: about 700 such operations were performed last year, double the rate of the year before...