Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Interest in law school peaked in 1973-74, Joel S. Russell '71, pre-law adviser at OCS-OCL, said yesterday. The following year applications fell by more than 1000, and while 1975-76 total applications registered an increase, the trend downwards is reasserting itself, he said...
...millions of U.S. sports fans, watching in stadiums and arenas or on TV screens at home, the trend is obvious and incontrovertible. The image of the star athlete is, increasingly, a black image. Yet, while many Americans, black and white, wonder about the reasons for the overwhelming black presence in major sports, simply to remark on the fact makes some people uncomfortable. Racial differences -whether physical or cultural-have been employed in the past as excuses for discrimination. Throughout history, scientific findings have been twisted to serve the social theories of supremacists from ancient Greece to Nazi Germany to separate...
...Jewish and Italian athletes and entertainers fought, ran, sang and joked their way into a society previously closed to them. The same journey is now being undertaken by blacks. Ironically, the very success of black sports stars has served to focus aspirations in the black community on athletics, a trend that social scientists-as well as thoughtful black athletes-feel is limiting the potential of many young blacks. Says Sociologist Corrie Hope of Morehouse College: "Unfortunately, I'm afraid that being successful in sports will remain for a long time the surest way out of the ghetto...
...Churches Should Not Pay Taxes, by the Rev. Dean M. Kelley (Harper & Row; 151 pages; $6.95). Kelley, religious-liberty director of the National Council of Churches, takes up arms against a recent trend toward taxing religious institutions (hard-pressed New York City, for example, has withdrawn exemption from the property of the American Bible Society). Kelley argues that churches should be protected as the only institutions that provide meaning in people's lives on a massive scale, a function of great social value even to nonbelievers. He points out that tax-exempt church properties are not a big cause...
...which is pleasant news for Colleen McCullough, 39, a neurophysiologist whose youthful ambition to study medicine was blighted by the lack of scholarship funds. This phenomenal shaking of the money tree also underscores the growing trend among once decorous publishers to ape the methods of Broadway and Hollywood. A handful of people are gambling with a lot of money up front that they know what the public will buy-that instead of watching Kojak reruns all summer, people will bury themselves in a long saga of life on an Australian sheep station...