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Word: trend (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last year the ratio dropped from 1975's 2.3-to-1 to 1.9-to-1 and this year--the second under the sex blind equal access policy--shows a continuing trend towards a more balanced sex ratio at the College, Mary Anne Schwalbe '55, director of admissions, said this week...

Author: By Michael A. Calabrese, | Title: Equalizing Harvard's Admissions | 4/16/1977 | See Source »

Even the alumni, who have traditionally opposed any cut in the number of men admitted to the College and many of whom expressed anger with last year's totals, seem to have accepted the ideal, if not the fact, of a trend toward 1-to-1 admissions, L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions, said yesterday...

Author: By Michael A. Calabrese, | Title: Equalizing Harvard's Admissions | 4/16/1977 | See Source »

...Supreme Court as fast as they could." Says Oregon Associate Justice Hans A. Linde, disapprovingly: "A generation of Americans was brought up to believe that all law and all wisdom come from these nine men in a marble temple." Even some liberal state court judges appreciated the trend, preferring that federal judges, appointed for life, take the heat for sometimes unpopular decisions advancing minority rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Just Leave It to the States | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

...likely to grow. Many Americans battling against child porn view their efforts as a last stand against the tide of pornography. Says California State Senator Newton Russell: "This is a reflection of the social and spiritual morality of this nation. If there is to be any reversal in the trend, the place to start is child porn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Child's Garden of Perversity | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

...psychiatrist to certify that she would be unable to study while living at the Quad; others had alumni parents plead their cases to the housing office. All told, about 60 Quad residents have transferred so far this year and many more hope to follow them. Nor is the trend abating: in a housing poll released today more than half of the freshmen polled listed Quad Houses among the two Houses in which they would least like to live...

Author: By Roger M. Klein, | Title: The Fox Trot | 3/25/1977 | See Source »

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