Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...According to Washington's figures, 96 people were killed by death squads last January, compared with 228 during the same month a year earlier, 279 in January 1982, and 665 in January 1981. Though the toll hit 100 in March, Administration officials claim the long-term trend is downward. "The figures are all guesstimates because there isn't any system of justice left in El Salvador," says Richard Millett, a Central American expert at Southern Illinois University. "Anybody can be killed with virtual impunity. You do not want to investigate because you might find out, and finding...
...Aubuisson has never been conclusively linked to death squad atrocities. He retired after the 1979 coup, but within weeks he was appearing on television, his time paid for by rich landowners, naming opponents inside and outside the new government as "subversives." A disturbing trend developed: some of those he mentioned were murdered shortly afterward. Calling D'Aubuisson "a pathological killer," former U.S. Ambassador Robert E. White has accused him of masterminding the March 1980 assassination of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero. White could never prove his charge, but allegations continue to haunt D'Aubuisson and his associates. Several members...
...Dworkin-MacKinnon ordinance is part of a recent trend among feminists, who are critical of pornography and its effects on society's perception of women. Feminists like Dworkin contend that the portrayal of women as submissive sexual objects promotes a degrading attitude toward women that in turn leads to sexual discrimination, harassment, abuse, and rape. They have written articles, staged marches, and given speeches advocating the banning of obscene material because of its damaging effects on women...
Thirty-four percent of the incoming students will be women, up from approximately 20 percent in previous years. Officials attribute this trend to increased recruiting, as they try to broaden the applicant base the admissions office now receives applications from at least 109 institutions, as opposed to the 45 schools it tapped previously, according to Assistant Dean and director of MPP admissions Calvin N. Mosley...
...first time, with the publication last month of What Do Unions Do? a pair of Harvard economists have challenged the common prejudices against unions and, contrary even to the trend in their profession, come out in defense of the controversial organizations. After eight years of research and with the use of an unusually extensive amount of empirical data, Professor of Economics Richard B. Freeman and Associate Professor of Economics James L. Medoff conclude that, far from being the sources of inefficiency, unions actually have a positive effect on the economy and on American Society as a whole...