Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trend toward working right after college is not unique to Harvard. Yale's director of career placement. Susan Hauser, reports 70 percent of the class moving immediately into jobs, and Columbia and Princeton are experiencing record numbers as well...
...like the trend of medicine to be organized by the corporations," Kolb said. "[If McLean affiliates,] it's going to make it easier for all of medicine to be swallowed up by the corporations. It doesn't really affect me because I'm at McLean, but it is going to affect the guy in Pocattella, Ind. who doesn't have the clout to say, 'let's affiliate, not be bought...
...first quarter of this year it was up at an annual pace of 3.2%. John W. Kendrick, a professor at George Washington University and a guest at last week's TIME Board of Economists meeting, believes that the U.S. is now "going back to the higher productivity trend we saw between 1948 and 1973." One of the leading American experts in the field, Kendrick maintains that many of the factors that made the U.S. inefficient in the 1970s are now improving...
...Enterprises, once a trend setter with such sitcoms as The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda, has largely turned its attention to dramas like Hill Street Blues. Garry Marshall, the creator of Happy Days and Mork & Mindy, has forsaken TV for feature films...
Squeezed by balanced-budget requirements and wobbly tax bases, a growing number of states are turning to lotteries. Since 1963, when New Hampshire started the trend, 16 other states and the District of Columbia have legalized such games; at least nine others are considering them.* The Public Gaming Research Institute, Inc. (P.G.R.I.), projects that lottery ticket sales in 1984 will total $6.7 billion (an average of more than $28 for every person in the country), up more than 26% from the 1983 sales record of $5.3 billion. About $2.1 billion of last year's take remained in state treasuries...