Word: trend
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Admissions officials have said the three-day program aims to reverse a recent trend which has seen fewer Early Action admitees opting for Harvard. Officials invited the 470 students admitted early in an effort to boost the Early Action acceptance rate from 90 percent to 100 percent...
...memory was particularly strong at the Condé Nast company; it is the nation's sixth largest magazine group (1982 advertising revenues: $180 million), and has been a leader in an industry-wide trend toward seeking the affluent, educated readers whom advertisers covet. Condé Nast is noted primarily for magazines about fashion and fitness (Vogue, Gentlemen's Quarterly, Self), but company executives believed that a cultural magazine could have even greater appeal "upscale" and invested as much as $15 million to develop the idea. Next week 732,000 copies of the first Vanity Fair in 47 years...
...times McManus seems to echo the views of President Reagan. He argues that "as soon as government gets involved in welfare programs, at least 100 times more people get welfare than actually need it. The needy should be taken care of by private charity. "But, as is the trend among ultra-right groups, the John Birch Society believes Reagan is not a "real conservative...
...members still persist, convinced that if they lose, havoc will reign. "Our strategy is to inform society so they choose better leaders. If we're successful, then the trend towards bigger government will stop." McManus says, "If we're not successful then there will be a communist style government in the United States...
...School's new programs would try to reverse this trend by making high school education a more attractive possibility, Merceth said. She added that she has received tremendous support from officials in various Massachusetts school systems, who said they would be willing to hire all the newly trained teachers...