Word: trend
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...seek full recovery from one or more of them. In a few states, a case can be thrown out if a plaintiffs carelessness contributed even slightly to the injury. Most states reduce the amount of the judgment in proportion to the plaintiff's negligence. But the long-term trend toward making it easier for plaintiffs to sue has not yet turned around. A bill to limit liability was voted down by a committee of the California legislature two weeks...
...formation last spring of The Girl Next Door, according to Patell, heralded a trend in which "There were a lot of bands, all of a sudden, where there hadn't been before--you'd always hear music coming from the bottom of the Union," where a practice room for rock bands is located...
...shift at Harvard apparently reflects a national trend. Since the 60s, the Agency for International Development (AID), the federal government's main channel for foreign assistance, has grown dissatisfied with captial development projects--such as road, dam and hospital building. Instead, it has 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 development 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...
Perhaps the greatest trend for Harvard athletics the past four years has been the emergence of the women's program. And no group has been more responsible for bringing title after title to Harvard than Francesca DenHartog, Maureen Finn, Pat Horne, Kate Martin and Jennifer White...