Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...election of Griffiths and Colburn is, of course, not indicative of any identifiable trend among youthful voters. Neither man may be considered a radical. Says Griffiths: "We are not out to disestablish the establishment." Moreover, both had substantial off-campus support. But for those looking to 1972, the dramatic demonstration of youth power in East Lansing shows that when students choose to throw their weight behind a candidate who also has local strength, they can make the difference...
...those interested in this type of medicine. Nor have federal funds been forthcoming to support private group practice. Some idealistic doctors emerge from medical schools with heavy debts and cannot afford to take jobs that offer only modest incomes. As a result, says Harvard's Funkenstein, the trend toward community medicine has already peaked for the time being. Many young doctors, unable to break out of the system, have settled into conformity...
...first six months of this year, the industry opened 123 new theaters and began construction on 152 more. Nevertheless, the nationwide total of theater seats and parking slots (about 30% of U.S. theaters are drive-ins) is not necessarily rising, because the big downtown theaters are coming down. The trend is toward suburban minitheaters with as few as 150 seats. About 70% of the new theaters are in shopping centers; frequently one house contains several separate small auditoriums that share the same box office, snack concession and automated projection operations. Comedian Jerry Lewis, who is franchising such complexes...
...claims for the gadget-laden crib typify a growing trend in child psychology toward forced early education and "programmed enrichment." Now Harvard Pediatrician Richard Feinbloom has strongly urged the American Academy of Pediatrics to take a stand against it. At the organization's recent annual meeting, he maintained that elaborate educational toys for infants are no be' er playthings than pots and pans. As a matter of fact, he said, their use, especially in the elaborate new "crib environments," may endanger normal intellectual and emotional development...
...contemporary American historian who wishes to rise above the fray, the options are few. He can reject the current revisionist trend and adopt an orthodox stance. He can synthesize the two strands and turn out the definitive work. Or he can borrow a little from each, blur the basic issues, and emerge with a book that seems statesmanlike only because it is so jejune. Adam Ulam took the last choice; the result is his intellectually anemic study, The Rivals: America and Russia Since World...