Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition, using data from a U. S. Army study, the HAC found "a decided upward trend in stillbirths, moles, and deformities" in the Vietnamese countryside, excluding data from Saigon (where no spraying has taken place, of course). Nevertheless, the HAC is cautious in drawing any conclusions. A scientific approach remains to be developed, concludes the Commission's preliminary report, for "determining the amounts of herbicide residues in the diet and in human tissues, waiting for future research to determine the implications, if any, of whatever levels are found...
...poorly served by integration. As predominantly white institutions have opened their doors to Negroes, many of the black schools' most promising applicants have been lured away. Major institutions have also undercut those schools by snapping up top black teachers and administrators. As first steps toward reversing this downward trend, the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education last week recommended that black colleges should remain black, upgrade their courses, and double their enrollment, perhaps as soon...
...thirds of the gains from increased productivity in higher pay and one-third in more leisure time. It has seemed almost heretical to consider that both output and leisure could be increased together with no loss in pay and profits. Yet that is the promise of the beginning trend toward the four-day week. The most widely used four-day plan does not involve the four-day, 32-hr, week that remains a goal of organized labor; instead, in its simplest form, it calls for dividing the normal 40-hr, week into four 10-hr, days, leaving three days...
...jump in enrollments in basic pre-medical courses strongly suggests that the recent development is only the beginning of a trend...
...object. Riot Nights, by recent Harvard graduate Ron Innis, is a provocative but flawed first novel, victimized by its proximity to its subject matter. It is difficult not to imagine that Innis has also been victimized by salivating New York publishers intent on capitalizing, in accordance with the current trend, on a premature and giddy Ivy League talent...