Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...light crude, which is used for gasoline. Limited though they are, the price reductions have badly hurt Egypt, which needs all the money that it can get from sales of its heavy-grade oil. Venezuela, also a big producer of heavy oil, is attempting to buck the trend by increasing prices, mainly on long-term supply contracts...
...This trend was particularly prevalent in Core classes, 10 of which used the online program to assign students to sections...
Many major airlines view the trend away from standard fixed fares with varying degrees of horror and resignation. The airlines are at last making money again: having lost by one estimate $94 million as recently as 1975, the major carriers could collectively earn a record $500 million this year, thanks partly to a post-recession upturn in air travel. But bargain plans will almost always have a "modestly negative" impact on earnings, insists Theodore Shen, airline analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. So why are the airlines slashing fares...
Despite the sameness of the scene, there's another difference in this year's freshmen, one that can only be perceived by talking to them. It is the continuation of a trend that started several years ago, part of the incredibly overwritten "new mood on campus," which is now the old mood. It is reflected in the rampant pre-professionalism (that 80 per cent figure is the highest ever) and an increasing depoliticization. This is not just a move away from leftism--although that, too, is evident--but a move away from all political interest or conviction. Of course...
...medical costs skyrocket and more American women choose natural childbirth, often at home, over the impersonal facilities offered by many hospitals, it seems likely that the trend will accelerate. A bill, currently pending in Congress-sponsored by Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii-would authorize Medicaid payment of fees to nurse midwives. Next week the California assembly will consider a bill, backed by Governor Jerry Brown, legalizing the practice of mid wifery by adequately trained people whether or not they are also registered nurses...