Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...average age of our 39 Presidents when they took office is 55. The youngest was Theodore Roosevelt, who made it at 42, thanks to an assassin. John Kennedy, at 43, was the youngest elected President. The oldest is Reagan. The sample is too small to support a valid statistical trend. Yet a glance at this century's Chief Executives and their Inaugural ages suggests that the presidency is growing grayer (unless Reagan passes along the secret of his Hollywood hair): Theodore Roosevelt, 42; Taft, 51; Wilson, 56; Harding, 55; Coolidge, 51; Hoover, 54; Franklin Roosevelt, 51; Truman, 60; Eisenhower...
...Western White House. It will join the libraries and museums of seven other Presidents, built with private funds but staffed and maintained by the Government at a cost of $14.9 million this year. These modern pyramids have been getting ever more grandiose. Franklin D. Roosevelt started the trend when he built his own library at Hyde Park, N.Y., while still in office. Although he was President for only onesixth as long as Roosevelt, and in a time of less historical importance, Ford has a library in Ann Arbor, Mich., and a museum in Grand Rapids that boast 50% more space...
chez said, adding but now that a trend has been established, "other parts of the University must begin helping us in our efforts...
...IGBE invested the customers' money, earned interest on it, and waited for metals prices to dip so that the company could pay less for the gold or silver sent to the client. The scheme worked well from 1980 to mid-1982, when metals prices were on a downward trend. But late last year prices started to rise, and the bullion often cost the company more than customers had paid. Says Attorney Tew: "The house of cards collapsed...
...novel Dartmouth Plan for reorganizing undergraduate life in 1972, they unwittingly fostered an aura of transience around the Hanover, N.H., campus. Today, plans to implement a new student government, consolidate dormitories, and tighten the options students have under the Dartmouth Plan appear to be a reaction against the liberal trend of changes made...