Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yale summer term officials visited Harvard in December to study the Harvard program in hopes of salvaging the Yale summer term, Shinagel said. He cited Yale's $6 million budget deficit last year and a "general trend away from college summer sessions" as possible causes for the decline of Yale's summer term...
...trend toward violence in the N.B.A. has been accelerated in recent years by the glorification of "enforcers" -players whose talents lie less in ball handling and shooting than in their ability to intimidate opposing players. The Tomjanovich tragedy has shown that the N.B.A. must move quickly to clean its house, or, in the words of Rocket Guard Calvin Murphy, "Someone will be seriously killed...
...C.H.H.'s offer of $36. National Starch shares jumped more than 20 points in a single day and closed at $65.50; even those who bought at that price will profit by selling to Unilever at $73.50. That situation points up the big gest reason for the takeover trend: prices of many stocks have sunk so low that a cash-rich company can offer a tempting premium and still pick up corporate as sets for less money than it would need to launch its own expansion program...
Companies accused of selling unsafe products have drawn steadily harsher penalties from courts and regulatory agencies in recent years. Last week that trend was significantly advanced by Jus tice Department felony indictments against Chicago-based Velsicol Chemical Corp. and six present and former employ ees. The executives, all of whom could face prison terms, are charged with con spiring to conceal from the Environmental Protection Agency the results of tests that showed that two widely used pesticides may cause cancer in humans. The indictment is the first ever sought by the EPA against a company for covering up adverse information...
...recent national survey linked a decline in college enrollment to the end of the Vietnam war but several officials here said yesterday Harvard's matriculation patterns do not follow the national trend...