Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trend that has become clear in the Kendall Square dispute is that increased tax revenue and employment opportunities have eclipsed housing as the official purpose of urban renewal. Community groups, however, find the tax arguments unacceptable. Both sides say they are interested in maximizing jobs for Cambridge residents and therein may lie the path to compromise...
...finger at the culprit is virtually impossible. Many different ingredients constitute the mess: the 2.5 to 1 sex ratio arising out of Harvard's non-merger merger, the housing shake-up performed in March by the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL), a possible reversal of the recent trend toward leave taking, a small senior class and the inadequacy of the present plan for assigning freshmen to Houses. Any one of these reasons could have made the roof cave in this Spring...
Whitlock fears that the large number of returnees may signal a reversal of the trend toward leave-taking, a trend which began during the upheavals of the late sixties. "There can always be a fluke, students can always stop taking leave," he said. The number of students on leave jumped from 372 to 437 last year while the volume of returning students increased 52 to 418. Both of these statistics cover an entire year...
Though it is too early to view the trend as established, the signs are en couraging. In the first quarter of 1973, Japan took in $803 million less from other countries than its citizens spent or lent abroad. In April, it posted a record monthly payments deficit of $1.1 billion. Key reasons: a surge in Japanese bank loans to foreigners and a sharp increase in overseas investment by Japanese businessmen, both occurring with government approval. Another important reason was the lessening of Japan's trade surplus with the U.S., its chief market for exports and supplier of imports. During...
Paul Simon's solo work has been aimed at revitalizing himself musically. It turns out that Arthur Garfunkel was a restrictive influence in roughly the same way Paul McCartney restricted John Lennon. Paul Simon sang Simon's problems; not unusual in light of the trend toward works exploring "the pain of the heart," exemplified by Joni Mitchell and Baby James. Songs like "Everything Put Together Falls Apart," "Run That Body Down," and "Armistice Day" probed their author's psyche, while "Mother and Child Reunion," and "Me and Julio" revitalized Simon's music, as well as letting him look within...