Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PRESIDENT BOK is slated to unveil his new dean of the Faculty later this month; there is no reason to believe--given Bok's method of choosing and the trend towards Mass Hall domination of University Hall--that the new man will be much of an improvement over the old model...
...fringe of a major crisis. Such British America-watchers as Louis Heren and Andrew Shonfield wonder about the imponderable effect of a triumph of conservatism in the U.S. Heren is one of the few to perceive a "new equilibrium" in the U.S. that he regards as an encouraging trend away from unrest. In recent years, Europe has been infected with what has seemed America's doubt about its own future and the American dream. The feeling is widespread that the time has come for the U.S. to learn some lessons from Europe, rather than the reverse...
SINCE then, the tax laws have become still more complex, driving more Americans every spring to seek help in filling out their returns. The trend has led to a rapid proliferation of commercial tax specialists, including many "refund mills" that pop up like crocuses in March, make a killing helping taxpayers cheat the Government, then fade away on April 16. Now the Internal Revenue Service has opened a nationwide campaign of investigations, arrests and prosecutions to root out and discredit these fly-by-nights. At the same time, the taxmen have launched a sweet-talking publicity campaign urging people...
...depend on the strength of our own concepts of justice. We were sure we had the right to study, a right to be lawyers and doctors, and that the stated contention that we had those rights was obvious enough to sway the powers that be. But the present favorable trend is the result of far more than the reiteration of our theories of justice, however persistent and articulate they might have been...
...Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange has shown, violence can also be made to look beautiful--and attractive. Films like these, precisely because they have artistic merit, raise disturbing new questions about the tolerance of society for such things, assuming as seems likely that they represent a major trend...