Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trouble stems from the growing resistance of disease-causing microbes to antibiotics. By the 1970s, the trend had grown to alarming proportions. Penicillin, once a sure cure for most forms of venereal disease, in more and more cases turned out to be ineffective. When doctors tried alternative therapies, they discovered that some bacteria had resistance to several drugs...
WASHINGTON--The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores of America's high school seniors dropped slightly this year, continuing a downward trend that began a decade ago, the College Board reported Saturday...
...dream, but he resents that description. The very word suggests impracticality, something Ackerman wants no part of. "Would it seem like a dream to you if you bought a new truck?" he asks. Is he the forerunner, the leader in something new, something that could become a trend? "Nah," he sneers in a New Hampshire twang. "If a lot more schooners are built, it will be because a lot of people independently came by the same conclusion I did." His conclusion: with fuel now responsible for 40% of the cost of running any engine-driven ship, and the price still...
Whether that will help or hinder their candidate is another question. The Haydens' political philosophy seems to run counter to the conservative trend in America. There may be new interest in the Viet Nam War, but it is highly questionable that evoking the Haydens' approach to the conflict is a way to make political capital. Indeed, there is the very real possibility that stirring memories of the war may strengthen the revisionist beliefs of those Americans who feel that the conflict need not have been lost after...
...working conditions are not nurses' only concern. They want professional advancement. Nursing has long had such specialists as the nurse-midwife and the nurse-anesthetist who assisted at surgery. But since the 1970s, the trend toward specialization has accelerated. Many more nurses are devoting themselves exclusively to coronary care, renal dialysis, burns, neonatal care, cancer, psychiatry, pediatrics, respiratory disease and geriatrics. Called nurse practitioners, they number about 15,000. Some work closely with doctors in special units of hospitals or in offices. Others, particularly in rural areas, where physicians are scarce, practice virtually on their own: for example, Eleanora...