Word: trend
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According to a 1978 Clark University study, 83 per cent of Massachusetts supports the woman's right to choose. But the trend of recent legislation is distinctly anti-abortion, the result of an extremely well-organized and funded "Pro-life" movement (which some link to the New Right). On the federal level, the 1976-7 Hyde Amendment, a rider on the Labor-HEW appropriations bill, cut off federally funded abortions except in cases of rape, incest, and "medically necessary" instances, defined by the Supreme Court as long-lasting physical or psychological damage to the mother's health...
...Smith, says the large number of absences caused some temporary confusion, but the college compensated by bringing in a larger freshman class. This year, the percentage of students abroad has returned to normal. Keppler believes the sudden increase was part of a fad, not a long-term trend...
...church are out of step with contemporary Americans, including many Roman Catholics, in dealing with sexuality. In the U.S. generally, sexual pleasure has lately come to be regarded as a matter of personal gratification unconnected with social responsibility or, of course, with sin. Even among U.S. Catholics the trend is toward the belief that any individual act whatever is acceptable if it can be thought to foster love or self-esteem and enrich the life of the participants. The position of the Roman Catholic Church is that self-gratification alone is morally dangerous and that sex must be linked...
...Bova, a science fiction writer for more than 20 years and the field's most respected magazine editor, got tired of preaching to the converted. continuing a trend shown in his last few books and by his switch last year from Analog, which appeals to a limited science fiction readership, to Omni, one of Bob Guiccione's glossy publications. Bova is aiming for the mass market with Kinsman. It's science fiction, yes, the reliable Bova blend of advanced science and backward bureaucrats, but science fiction intended primarily for the uninitiated--those sad souls who do not see the value...
...dummy; when he doesn't know what will happen, he says so. On China, he writes, "No matter how many crystal balls one uses, it is patently impossible to foresee the future evolution of the Chinese Communist Party." Where a lesser writer would have struggled to find a trend, the seasoned journalist--whose 30 years experience has helped reveal the serious instabilities threatening every Asian nation--says what he feels...