Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...similar trend away from his earlier style, Hadzi's work has gotten progressively larger. The four major commissions he has taken on since 1978 vivify this change in their immutable grandeur. In 1978 he completed a colored granite floor mosaic and 16-foot fountain for the headquarters of Johnson Wax in Racine, Wisconsin. Three years later, at the world headquarters of Owens-Illinois in Toledo, Ohio he unveiled his mammoth 36-foot granite "Propylea," its name recalling the welcoming gates of the Acropolis...
While some Black students attribute the decrease in political awareness to a general trend of apathy, most feel there is a substantive change in the nature of Black students coming to Cambridge today. An Q. Fitzgerald '84, a BSA member who also serves as a minority student recruiter, says earlier Black student leaders in the 1970s brought with them "a political perspective that is 180 degrees different than the perspective of a lot of Black students coming in now" Jackson agrees, saying that Black Harvard students today are more a part of the mainstream than their predecessors were and react...
With summer just around the corner, the pale of face throughout the Northern Hemisphere will soon be hitting beaches in pursuit of a deep, dark and sexy tan. The Victorian ideal of delicate, camellia-white skin has long since been supplanted by the bronzed-god look. But the trend has taken a mortal toll. Sun-related skin cancer is rapidly on the rise in the U.S. and Europe, and afflicting younger and younger people. The incidence of the most lethal form, malignant melanoma, though less directly linked to sunshine, has jumped tenfold in the past 20 years. Last week some...
...lowan named Arabella Mansfield became the first woman to be admitted to the bar in this country. No one could accuse her of starting a trend; as recently as 1960, perhaps 3% of the nation's lawyers were female. Then in the 1970s the bars to the bar began to fall. Today 12% to 14% of the more than 600,000 lawyers practicing in the U.S. are women, and they make up more than one-third of the current enrollment at law schools...
...School of Medicine announced a plan to guarantee admission to students still in their junior year of college. The purpose, said Hopkins Dean Richard Ross, is to encourage students to take a broader and more flexible approach to their senior year. Said he: "We would like to reverse the trend toward early specialization and overemphasis on science as preparation for medicine...