Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feeling is that it's trend that's been building gradually in the federal government, not specific to [the] Reagan [Administration]," Martin says, adding. "It just reflects a growing bureaucracy...
...This trend has made the centralized system for distributing computer power to students at Harvard increasingly absolete. Harvard's system of terminals tied to powerful mainframe computers is no longer as cost-effective as a decentralized network of smaller computers tied together by wires or telephone lines...
...This trend, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III says, could lead to a "leadership strata," in which the leaders become out of touch with the rest of the body, inactive members neglect meetings, and the whole body loses touch with constituents in the Houses. "A lot of people on the council get into the thinking they are doing the things they are doing for the council, [not for the students]," Melendez acknowledges...
Concerned about the trend, President Bok and the Faculty Council, the Faculty's elected steering committee, are discussing ways to educate students about the need to protect all speakers' rights to free speech. The Council spent an hour discussing the issue at a meeting this spring, but reached no conclusion save a resolution to determine the best way to define, enforce and enlighten students about a clear University policy. Casting about for guidance, the group asked Bok to write an open letter on the subject and he has said he hopes to compose such a statement this summer or next...
Hale Champion, executive dean of the Kennedy School of Government, thinks that this may be indicative of a trend towards less faculty involvement in the 1984 elections, a change he attributes to the issues raised in the campaign. "There isn't the same level of interest in new ideas: there are fewer areas of debate," he says...