Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...despite the high overall yield, the yield among Black students lags at only 53 percent, the third year of a downward trend. While admissions officers have increased recruiting in the past several years, they say financial problems play a large part in the lower yield among Blacks...
Steiner's decision to expand Harvard's inside legal staff is not unusual in the legal world. Over the past few years there has been a trend towards larger in-house staffs among universities as well as private corporations. Lawyers for other major universities and corporations consistently cite the same reasons as Harvard attorneys for their efforts to rely less on outside counsel: cost containment and greater familiarity with organizational policies and procedures...
Ropes and Gray has always attracted a large number of its attorneys from Harvard Law School. Sargeant recalls that after he joined the firm in 1947, almost all the lawyers hired over the next five years were Law School graduates. That trend has continued to the present: 58 percent of a recent batch of new associates in the firm were Law School alumni, according to the American Lawyer Guide. And Sargeant says, "We still have a keen interest in hiring from Harvard...
...shift at Harvard apparently reflects a national trend of the `80s,the Agency for International Development (AID), the federal government's for foreign assistance, has grown with capital development projects--such is said, dam and hospital building. Instead, in his increasingly favored training programs in areas such as business management as well as grants that bring foreign students to the U.S. to study, says Walter A. Grady, an AID spokesman. "We've shied away from capital developments because we've learned the lesson that they don't really benefit the poor...
Accompanying this trend toward conserving resources is a newly discovered faith in the effectiveness of training foreign students at Harvard. "In the '60s we had the notion that we knew the answer and that we could make a difference. Now we are beginning to think that the most efficient way [of training Third World students] is to have them come here," Lodge adds...