Word: trend
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Reflecting a trend that New York Telephone Supervisor Edward C. Small calls "symptomatic and reflective of the society in which we live," 15% of all phone customers now have unlisted numbers, up from 8.5% ten years ago. One .reason is to escape annoying calls from such groups as pushy salespeople-peddling everything from insurance policies to vacation homes-and over-zealous charities. But the privacy invaders are beginning to fight back with a new weapon: an automated dialer and recorded-message player that can make up to 1,000 calls a day. Because the device blankets entire telephone exchanges-automatically...
Boston's troubles are rooted in a social trend that began in the early '50s: the shift in white collar population, and the political and financial power that they embody, from the cities to the suburbs. This trend had two disastrous effects on Boston. The city lost to the suburbs its strong influence over the state government, and the Boston tax base began to crumble rapidly...
Compiled by researchers at Stanford and the University of Connecticut, the report found that most faculty members also believe students entering college are less well-prepared than in the past, and that grade inflation is a rising trend...
Faculty members at the University who were reached for comment yesterday agreed with the findings of the roll, saying that Scholastic Aptitude Test scores, a common index of academic preparation for college, have remained virtually constant at Harvard, in contrast to the downward trend nationwide...
...sheer numbers alone, the trend is extraordinary. At the University of Colorado, attendance at continuing-education-department courses has jumped from about 29,000 in 1971 to 41,000 in 1975. California's community college network, which is tuition-free for in-state residents, catered to a staggering 1,265,000 adults last year-one out of every eight adults in the state-a 50% increase over just five years ago. Nationwide last year, 5.5 million adults over age 25-about 50% of total college enrollment-took courses for credit...