Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's Class of 1971 is continuing a recent trend "to engage in activities which are personally satisfying, but which may not relate to their eventual career plans," according to a report prepared by James W. Wickenden Jr., associate director of the Office for Graduate and Career Plans (OGCP...
...week both the House of Delegates and the state senate passed overwhelmingly a resolution calling for a constitutional amendment prohibiting busing to achieve racial balance. The conservative Richmond Times-Dispatch ran a series of antibusing editorials and printed angry letters decrying the "puppet courts throughout America" and the "Communist trend overtaking the nation." Raymond Boone, editor of the Richmond Afro-American, made it plain that the city's blacks consider the antibusing factions segregationist. "This will determine whether democracy can work or not," he said. "If we don't make it this time, you can forget...
...Thatcher brought the fiscal toughness of a future Chancellor to the nation's schools. Instead of rebuilding the most dilapidated secondary schools-a program originally planned as part of the trend toward the comprehensives-Mrs. Thatcher has budgeted ?. 132 million ($343 million) for the improvement and replacement of 460 primary schools. "Primary education is the foundation of all later education," she explains. "The value of later opportunities is lost if a child does not get off to a good start...
...Ford survey shows that 57% of all light trucks are used partly for recreation. Indeed, Dodge is setting up a squad of traveling repair vans that will service disabled trucks that are Isolated in the nation's parks and other recreational areas. The auto companies, sensing the recreational trend, made the pickup truck more acceptable to suburban families by styling it more like a car. In twelve major markets, Ford reports, 14% of suburban families own trucks...
...Government has long been trying to reverse the trend. Subsidies to the nation's nine regional airlines-for retaining their 30 smallest outposts climbed from $36 million in 1969 to $59 million last year. In all, the subsidies average $65 for each traveler flying out of the 30 towns. Under a complex formula, the Civil Aeronautics Board now pays Hughes Airwest $466 for each of the few passengers that it carries out of Payette and nearby Ontario, Ore. The airline's highest regular fare is $85 for a trip from Phoenix to Puerto Vallarta in Mexico. Air-west...