Word: trend
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Exactly how the application trend will translate into class size in September is not yet clear. "The payoff is how many register," noted A.A.C. President Frederic W. Ness. Moreover, high school seniors today may simply be more confident about getting into their first-choice colleges. In that case, there would be fewer applications to second-choice schools than there were in the fiercely competitive 1960s. Still, the U.S. Office of Education predicts that next fall's enrollments at four-year campuses will be roughly the same as this year's 9.2 million. Turned off by high college costs...
...more applicants than in 1972. Similarly, the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges reported that applications to the nation's 109 major state university systems and campuses had dropped off by 4.2%-the first overall decline in ten years. There were exceptions to the trend, of course. As a group, the eight Ivy League colleges had 3.3% more applicants than last year. The number declined by 3.4% at Harvard but rose by 8% at Yale, which had actively recruited women...
...March, Japan posted a record balance of payments deficit-yes, deficit-of $1.1 billion, caused by a hefty rise in Japanese imports and a huge outflow of long-term investment capital. Though the payment figures have been bouncing around too erratically from month to month to establish any definitive trend yet, they may presage-to the vast relief of the U.S.-the dwindling if not the end of the gigantic Japanese surpluses in commercial dealings with the world...
...past three weeks, TIME has been examining America's rising discontent with entrenched intellectual ideas: liberalism, rationalism and scientism. In previous articles, TIME'S Behavior, Religion and Education sections discussed how this trend has affected their domains. This week the Science section considers the repercussions for science and technology. It finds a deepening disillusionment with both, as well as a new view among some scientists that there should be room in their discipline for the nonobjective, mystical and even irrational...
...Harvard's prestige extends into more crucial matters. Professors here are accorded "seer" status, even when they turn out to be wrong. The slick newsweeklies typically chart a trend among young people by teeing off with the latest goings-on at Harvard. The Hotelworkers Union pension fund and the Jay Gould Foundation may have similar stocks tucked away in their protfolios, but if Harvard makes an investment, it is considered automatically sound...