Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trend in this business is to smaller machines with greater computing power, and Harvard has begun to get the idea. In the past year, the University has cut three separate deals with major manufacturers to bring personal computers to students and faculty at cut-rate prices. Students have been beating each other over the heads to get a hold of one of the bargain basement Apple Macintoshes, and officials say sales of the other brands are going briskly too. No one is talking of blowing all the stuff in the Science Center out of the water tomorrow, but almost...
Experts fear that such conclusions will reduce the impetus to finding a solution to the problem. This in turn, they say, could further excerbate the current trend to less funding for atmospheric research, which would be disastrous to long-term efforts in the area...
...That trend should produce dramatic savings for consumers−potentially $1 billion over the next twelve years, according to the FDA. Generic drugs already on the market usually cost much less than their brand-name counterparts. At one Dallas pharmacy last week, customers had to pay $8.79 for 20 tablets of Lomotil, an antidiarrhea pill made by G.D. Searle. But the same amount of medication was available under its generic name, diphenoxylate, for only $3.29. In one New York City drugstore, a medicine for high blood pressure made by Ciba-Geigy called Apresoline cost $15 per 100 tablets; its generic...
...Chicago-Singapore hookup is a major step in the trend toward round-the-clock, round-the-world financial trading. Last July, officials of the New York and American stock exchanges announced that they were exploring the possibility of expanding their hours beyond the current 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. When the Chicago-Singapore link opened last week, trading was limited to futures contracts in Eurodollars, which are U.S. dollars deposited in foreign banks, and deutsche marks. Next month the exchange will begin trading futures in Japanese yen, and it may soon handle commodities like gold...
...sitcoms, more romantic fluff from the Aaron Spelling factory, another in the parade of blooper shows (ABC's People Do the Craziest Things) and a weekly version of a hit NBC mini-series from last season, V. The only discernible outside influence is the rock-on-film trend, sparked by Fame, Flashdance and MTV. They have inspired one new series, CBS's Dreams, and thumping rock sound tracks on several others...