Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Walls the adds, "however, that he believe the computer trend is moving "away from mainframes and torward personal computers...
...Smarts. The trouble in this administration is no one's got 'em. The lack of expertise on arms matters in Washington is approaching the nadir of the post-war world, a depressing trend made seary by the detachment of the President on the issue. The President's three top foreign policy advisers--the secretaries of State and Defense and his national security adviser--are all neophytes in the arcane business of nuclear weapons, leaving the nuts and bolts of the subject to second-level bureaucrats. Historically, every major Soviet American agreement has been carried forward through the initiative...
...grown proportionately more powerful in Indian society, nor has it undermined the civilian authority, both of which events have occurred in Pakistan. Indian defense expenditures have averaged between three and five percent of GNP since 1947--nearly the lowest level in the Third World--with a slight downward trend. Also, the military is all-volunteer, and at slightly over one million men it is near or at the bottom of the Third World in percentage of population...
More seniors than ever before will be taking advantage of Harvard's on-campus job recruiting program his year, continuing an upward trend in the numbers heading for employment directly after graduation...
...record total of 65 women had filed for House seats, 20 of them as incumbents. The general trend of voters to stick with their district legislators had no gender gap; all 20 women were reelected. But few of the challengers were successful. Perhaps the most prominent loser was Elise du Pont, 48, wife of Delaware's Republican Governor, Pierre S. du Pont IV. Her campaign suffered when she came across as rude and whiny in a debate with Incumbent Democrat Thomas Carper, 37. A fiscal conservative, Carper used his folksy manner and personal grass-roots approach...