Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paper offers offbeat trend stories, like a report last week that laboratories have, for financial rather than humanitarian reasons, cut back testing on animals, but most of the news in USA Today is not reported in depth. Indeed, President Reagan's State of the Union address was dismissed in four small stories, the longest of them just over 300 words; the New York Times gave the story most of three densely packed pages. Editor John Curley's once-over-lightly format has not changed much since the paper's first issue noted the assassination of Lebanese President...
More than 200 students granted early action admission to the College will attend a three-day program latter this month to show them what Harvard is like. The plan is designed to stem a recent trend in which fewer and fewer early-action students have opted to enroll at Harvard...
...CONSERVATISM SWEEPS the Ivy League" was a big "trend" story on the higher education beat last spring. Ever ready to set the record straight, I editorialized in The Crimson that the alleged realignment didn't extend much beyond the founding of a few right-wing periodicals, several with extensive outside encouragement and funding. Unable to resist the soap box, I also proclaimed that what seemed to be an indifferent undergraduate population actually concealed a politically aware "liberal" majority...
...even the most prestigious schools are exempt from the no-show trend. Harvard Business School, whose 1982 graduates earned salaries ranging from $15,000 to a lofty $85,800, has so far scheduled recruiters from 300 companies for interviews with its 782 graduating M.B.A. candidates. That corporate guest list is 8% smaller than the 1982 version, which was down 5% from the year before. Placement officers at M.l.T.'s Sloan School expect some 150 firms to call, down nearly 15% from the level of two years...
...convince the judge that they have reliable memories, understand the difference between truth and falsehood, and know that lying is wrong. Most children cannot satisfy those requirements before turning seven, but there are a growing number of exceptions. An increase in child abuse prosecutions is one reason for the trend. Another is the accelerated rate of maturity among the young. Says Washington State Supreme Court Justice Charles Stafford: "It's not just high school students who are more sophisticated; it goes all the way down to grade school...