Word: trend
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...results were compared with earlier surveys. The Pill, which was the most favored contraceptive in 1966, has fallen in popularity because of fears about potential health risks, particularly among women over 35 who smoke. The Pill's decline has also been affected by the trend toward smaller families, researchers say; women who do not want to have more children are increasingly seeking surgical sterilization. Among married women using birth control, the use of the Pill dropped from 36% in 1973 to 20% in 1982; in the same period, sterilization rose from 12% to 26%. Among unmarried women and women...
Both cases have attracted widespread media attention, but both are also part of a larger trend: an increased number of libel cases, many involving enormous some of money, being brought against the media by high officials in government. Sen. Paul Laxalt (R-Nev.) has sued the McClatchy Newspaper California for an article linking him to a scandal involving a Nevada casino, white South Dakota Gov. William Janklow has sued Viking Press and one of its authors over recent references to him in a book...
Last week Professor Dowling criticized the Guide for what he perceived as a trend toward increased subjectivity. Science courses, he felt, should not evaluated with the same forms as humanities and social science courses. The Guide already uses separate forms for language and non-language courses, but it is hard to see how separate forms for science courses would address the fundamental problem facing Core science classes: quite simply, many humanities and social science students take such courses out of compulsion alone and are unlikely to heap praise on what often is a subject area they would just have soon...
...second objection, voiced by one student member of the Committee on Undergraduate Education, over what he would fashion an increase in subjectivity in the Guide, is not well taken. The trend, over a number of years, to include more open questions and decrease the number of "rate the reading teacher labs from 1 to 7" represents an attempt to frame statistics in their proper context. To simply include more statistics, as Dowling suggests, would rip ratings from their mornings...
There are several reasons for the flight from California. One is the trend, which has been growing since the early 1960s, to use authentic locations, guaranteeing that the camera is actually where the script says it is. Director Mark Rydell opted to shoot the upcoming film The River in Tennessee because he wanted real local color. "Though great things get created on studio back lots, the East does look different from the West," says Barry Levinson, director of Diner, which was shot in Baltimore, and The Natural, which was made in Buffalo. "At one time Hollywood was crucial. But that...