Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work in Villa Victoria also seems to typify a general trend towards community service in student activities this fall...
...assessing stiffer penalties for students caught with weapons, setting tough codes of behavior and working to improve community relations have made discipline less of a problem. Says Massachusetts Commissioner of Education John Lawson: "The protest period of the '70s permitted students to drop discipline standards collectively, but that trend started to reverse three years ago." In Boston, physical assaults on school employees have dropped by 70% in the past 2½ years; robberies declined from 331 in the 1981-82 school year to 120 last year. In Jacksonville, drug violations dipped from 503 to 254 between...
...perhaps the most disturbing trend in Africa's postcolonial experience has been the continuation of tribal conflicts that have bedeviled the best-intentioned efforts at nation building. Kenya's Moi, a member of the minority Kalenjin tribe, calls modern Africa's tribal strife "the cancer that threatens to eat out the very fabric of our nation." From the beginning of the postcolonial period...
...simply look at the running times. Of the 50 nominees in the past decade for the Motion Picture Academy's Oscar for Best Picture, 28 have run more than two hours, and five have been at least three hours long. This year looks to continue the trend: The Right Stuff (3 hr. 11 min.) is sure to be nominated for Best Picture, and Scarf ace (2 hr. 50 min., nearly twice as long as the 1932 gangster classic on which it is closely based) has an outside shot...
...course, contrary to common sense to assume that any trend will keep on advancing until it triumphs all along the line. A trend postulates a countertrend, a force to be overcome, and if that latter has any raison d'etre to begin with, it will eventually reassert itself, and turn things around. The Hegelian triad of thesis-antithesis-synthesis has much to recommend it as a scheme of change...