Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...State Welfare Department, which supplies the home with most of its cases, has reported that the recent trend has been toward placing neglected children with individual families, rather than in institutions such as the Italian Home. As a result, these institutions receive a rising number of children with emotional disturbances that make them "hard to place" elsewhere. In order to adequately treat these children, the department has recommended that the entire staff be professionally trained. Ideally, cottage-style living areas could be built on the home's grounds, where six to eight children would live and eat with counselors hired...
...other colleges and universities to believe. Because of Harvard's institutional prestige and the corporate power of its alumni, the media have lavished huge amounts of ink on the issue, and outsiders have paid attention to the stories. And even if Harvard is not the actual initiator of a trend (as it was not in the '40s, when the University of Chicago and Columbia were the first to devise general education programs), people still perceive Harvard as the trendsetter. Thus thousands of students across the country may well be forced to suffer the ill effects of programs similar...
Since Harvard is a trend-setter for educational policy in America, the proctors are worried about the effect the Core Curriculum will have on other schools, Kulakowski said...
...face of all these failures, however, lawyers play ever more important roles. Less and less are they society's servants, more and more the masters of its machinery. That trend is not likely to be halted until clients insist on retaining greater control of the direction of their cases, until citizens give more thought to resolving disputes without plunging into the adversary process, and until voters stop insisting that every perceived wrong be countered with new law and move to reclaim some of the rule-making authority they have consigned to judges and bureaucrats by default. In the words...
That was the word this week, as the Medical School released statistics showing that the number of students applying to the school dropped last year--ending a ten-year trend that witnessed the tripling of the number of applicants...