Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perle countered the charge that the U.S. was exaggerating Soviet military superiority. Said he: "By whatever measure, the trend of the past dozen years is clear-it has flip-flopped in favor of the Soviet Union. The U.S. fell behind in all categories with the sole exception of the number of warheads, and if we meet again next year under these circumstances, it will be true in respect to the number of warheads as well." Perle then summed up his strategic credo. "I do believe deterrence works," he said. "Inhibiting the Soviet Union is the alliance's first priority...
...today's 17-year-olds cannot draw inferences from written material, and only a third can solve a math problem requiring several steps. It is no wonder that between 1975 and 1980 there was a 72% increase in remedial math courses at four-year public colleges. The trend, concludes the commission, "stems more from weakness of purpose, confusion of vision, underuse of talent and lack of leadership than from conditions beyond our control." Added Gardner: "There is ample blame to go around." Though the commission members all started with their "own jumble of biases," said Gardner, "almost miraculously...
Experts have mixed feelings about the proxy battles. Some believe that they are a good thing because they force managers who may have grown careless to face up to the wrath of stockholders. Says one proxy-battle lawyer: "This proliferation is part of the trend back to quality, hard work and the American way that is cropping up everywhere, from the auto industry to ,high tech...
...campus. When the Harvard Foundation invited Sugar Ray Leonard here I was not very alarmed. It was only an instance of silliness--nothing to worry about. But now that Miss Ross has came and been honored. I fear that a pattern has been established. Instead of denouncing much a trend with hard words. I would like to suggest another way that the Foundation can bring a little Hollywood to Harvard. Why don't they invite Duffy Duck? Oh yea, that little varmint will pack'em in. In addition, he fits the Foundation's criteria for guests: he's black...
...difficult, in the face of this trend, to take seriously the proposition that the introduction of women's studies be left up to individual deprtments, especially considering that no active attempts are being made to replace either women professors or their courses on women. The very fact that the majority of Harvard Radcliffe students have no concept of what women's studies means, or of what could possibly be lacking in a college education which almost completely ignores both the role of women in the world and the basic fact that men and women experience the world in different ways...