Word: trend
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...residents of Quebec must send their children to French-language schools, unless at least one parent attended English-language elementary school in the province. The rationale: nine out of ten non-French-speaking immigrants to Quebec now choose English-language schooling for their children-a trend that threatens the long-term survival of French as the province's principal language...
...Thus Labor and Likud are on a possible collision course: Begin has vowed to strip Histadrut of its ownership of factories and corporations. As jubilant Labor members saw it, the Histadrut vote proved that Begin's victory at the polls in May was an aberration rather than a trend. They predicted that Likud would be out of power again in less than the year during which Begin asked for "moral credit," meaning a moratorium on partisan infighting...
...Afro's steadily decreasing number of students. Because Afro courses focusing on art and music are usually undersubscribed, many concentrators particularly object to the appointment of Josephine Wright, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies, as head tutor for next year, another departmental decision they say shows the humanistic trend in Afro lying at the root of the department's student enrollment problems...
Portuges says at UMass those who wanted a program had to demonstrate substantial support and had to show "trend data" to convince the administration the field was not a temporary fad. She blames cumbersome administrative machinery for the length of time it took to get a proposal through...
Following a national trend, applications to Harvard's professional schools declined or leveled off this year, after rising steadily for the last three years. The "new mood" theorists aren't going to like this, kids...