Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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None of the three students in wheelchairs at Harvard concentrate in the natural sciences; even if they wanted to, they could not use the laboratories. The director of the handicapped student center at the University of Massachusetts at Boston suggests an additional explanation for this trend away from the sciences, which she notices even on that totally accessible campus. Most of the role models for these students have been social workers and rehabilitation counselors. At the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, however, the coordinator for handicapped student affairs says there is no such trend among the students his office serves...
...former governor of Texas said he favored free international trade. He noted, however, a world wide trend towards increased "nationalism" and economic "protectionism," because of unfavorable economic conditions such as the sharp oil price rises of recent years...
...Unofficially, many doors are still open. Officially, certain doors are open. One is sorry there have been setbacks, but I am not perturbed as long as the trend is upward. The fact is that South Africa has established itself and been accepted as an African country...
...Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. Her dinner partner, Senator Edmund Muskie, gently interrupted her reading to coax her to eat her spinach timbale. Later, with a flourish, Amy gave Muskie a souvenir-her place card, on which she had inscribed EAT YOUR SPINACH. Perhaps Amy will start a trend. Asked Washington Post Columnist Judith Martin: "If the book was better than the table conversation, which is certainly possible on state occasions, why can't everyone bring...
...advent of Murdoch, publishing tycoon on three continents, is of more than parochial New York City interest: he gave promise, with his money and his maverick irreverence, of brightening up the increasingly sedate American newspaper scene. The trend is all the other way: newspapers in monopoly cities being sold for huge sums to absentee conglomerates. Unless a local editor with courage and energy insists otherwise, the natural commercial impulse is to put out complacent, unenterprising papers that don't embarrass the local powers that be and make no waves. So far Murdoch, a fellow refreshingly free of cultural pretensions...