Word: trend
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With this distressing statistic showing signs of becoming a trend the admissions office and the College as a whole must now confront some of the larger issues it glossed over last spring. As concerned Black student leaders pointed out then more than one year with a low number of Black students could visibly diminish the "critical mass" of Blacks on campus, in turn worsening any negative race relations image Harvard may have in the outside world...
Many of the newcomers are decaffeinated versions of a company's standard brands. Coca-Cola (1982 sales: $6.2 billion), the largest soft-drink producer, joined the trend last week by rolling out caffeine-free varieties of Coke, diet Coke and TAB in Denver (see above) and Salt Lake City. The Atlanta-based firm, which had only two colas (Coke and TAB) before last July, will now have a total of brand entries in the cola field...
Right now Biggs is particularly concerned about the headlong rush to high-tech stocks. He calls this "classic overspeculation," yet he is not bearish about the overall market trend. He foresees some degree of correc ion, but not the 10% to 15% anticipated by many of his Wall Street colleagues. He still strongly favors blue-chip companies that will benefit most from a slowdown in inflation: IBM, GE, American Bell and 3M. Lower oil prices and interest rates, he says, could keep the bulls going. Biggs last week, using Churchill's famous quote, said the bull market...
...scores of America's locally owned newspapers, death and estate taxes have led to another apparent inevitability: sale to a chain. Last week, however, the 109-year-old Oakland (Calif.) Tribune (circ. 174,000) reversed the trend. Gannett, the nation's biggest newspaper group (86 dailies), sold the money-losing Tribune to Journalist Robert Maynard, 45, who is, like 47% of Oakland's residents, black. Said Gannett Chairman Allen Neuharth: "We had other prospective buyers, but we felt it desirable for the community to have a dedicated local owner...
...from Rumania. There, on April 28, a government decree took effect requiring all citizens to register their typewriters with the police. The stated purpose of this decision was to prohibit Rumanian troublemakers from typing anti-Communist leaflets, but anyone concerned with the fate of the typewriter will recognize a trend. It is going, this wonderful machine. It is on its way out of the world. Whether at the urgings of the Communists or the word processors, the device that has come to be called the old-fashioned manual will soon lie dusty in fraudulent antique shops between the duck decoys...