Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recover damages for his years of imprisonment. (He once came within 24 hours of execution.) Now a federal jury has ordered New York City to pay $120,000 on his claim that the city engaged in malicious prosecution and false arrest. It was a signal success in the growing trend of compensating the wrongfully imprisoned...
...reforms in generals may signal a trend toward relaxation of concentration requirements. The Anthropology Department, among others, considered dropping generals last year, and may still opt for take-home exams...
...four Eli seniors, Sam Aluni, Don Craig, Dean Boylan and Steve Whalen, who will be playing their last game tonight, have never beaten Harvard at the varsity level. The Crimson has dumped Yale in the last seven meetings, and the prospect of Yale reversing the trend tonight appears minimal...
...League. They still are mean, and they still have the power of the old snaffoo over Harvard. The Crimson really looked whipped in its last three losses, both physically and psychologically, and face another gruelling encounter with the Quaker/Tiger. There is not much hope that the trend will change. I wouldn't go so far as some folks and say that the season has been a complete horror show. But after the weekend it might be appropriate to have the 1972-73 basketball promotional film done up by Channel...
These examples, close to our attention because of The Crimson's independent status, could easily be transposed to the daily press five years hence if the present trend of government interference and manipulation of the press goes unchallenged. This is precisely why the press, on all levels except management, is so alarmed over the confidentiality question; a defeat for the press at this juncture could foretell rougher days ahead. So you have A.M. Rosenthal writing, "Freedom of the press depends on a reasonable degree of access to information and on confidentiality of news sources, and they go together. Without them...