Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wages, and United laid off 350 workers in March; Pan Am has cut operating costs by $30 million by dropping some of its least profitable flights. On all the carriers, first class is taking a back seat as more vacationers and businessmen settle for coach. To accommodate the trend and squeeze out more revenue, the airlines are pursuing a strategy that will scarcely be cheered by their customers: they are removing about 6,500 first-class seats-some 30% of the total-and replacing them with 12,000 coach seats, all crammed closer together than before. The passenger cabin crunch...
...them is another story: frustrating hassles with admissions officials over budgets, a questionable degree of commitment by Harvard, and a need for reform of the entire recruitment process. The treatment of these problems may well determine whether the high number of Chicanos in the class is part of a trend or little more than an aberration...
Jewett is not worrying about the decline in black women applicants, preferring to see if a trend develops before attempting to define a problem...
Contrary to the national trend, the average SAT scores of the students admitted to the Class of '80 are substantially high than last year's, with both the verbal and math averages of both men and women rising...
...trend to fiscal conservatism? One reason is that new congressional procedures, first tested last year, require Congress to look at the budget as a whole, rather than judging spending and revenue proposals individually. Also, reports TIME Correspondent John Berry, "the committee members sensed and responded to a growing conservative mood among the voters...