Word: trend
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...concept which can be applied easily to solving any scientific or humanistic problem. A huge problem is broken down into smaller problems, which are in turn broken down into tiny problems, which theoretically solve themselves. Instead of examining isolated events or phenomena as part of a general trend or linking them as illustrations of a broader theory as the Humanities and Social Sciences do Computer Science teaches students to do dissect problems into discrete components...
...there is nothing wrong with intervention that can be labeled anticolonialist. Notes International Law Professor Rosalyn Higgins of the London School of Economics: "The preoccupation with self-determination and ending colonialism has led to stresses and strains on the old limits on the use of force. In the newer trend, lending aid to gain self-determination is accepted." For Marxist-Leninist governments, a double standard is even easier to achieve, since Communist ideology rejects non-Marxist forms of government. Says Alfred P. Rubin, professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy: "The Soviets can get away with major, minor...
Representatives of an intercollegiate group organized to prevent such incidents said last week that Wheaton's problems with racism reflect a recent trend throughout American college campuses...
Preliminary estimates show that for the fourth connective year, applications to the Harvard Medical School declined but the dip was smaller then in previous years and the downward trend appears to be leveling off, Harvard officials said yesterday...
...decline follows a national trend of falling medical school applications since 1974. At Harvard the peak came later, in 1979, when close to 4000 people applied...