Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent years, the trend has been away from social issues and toward more personal causes. Some students, like dissatisfied consumers, sue their colleges for "fraud" when they are unable to get jobs for which they were trained. One California student sued her university for $125,000 for giving her a B+ in a course instead of an A -. Says Philip Moots, special counsel to Ohio State University, which, like many other institutions, is becoming increasingly familiar with what an Ohio State commencement speaker described as "litigation mania": "Today's students flunk...
...longer run, the most plausible idea for reforming Social Security is to reverse the trend toward earlier retirement by gradually raising the retirement age at which full benefits are paid. Advocates note that the same advances in medical science and health care that have been lengthening the lives of the retired would also permit them to keep working for more years. Congress recognized this reality in 1978 when it voted to raise the mandatory retirement age from 65 to 70. If the age for collecting full Social Security benefits were raised to 68 from 65, and the early retirement...
McCurdy sees a trend towards more emphasis on the individual runners and less on the team in general, and he is particularly disturbed by the increasing emphasis on recruiting...
When you think of college basketball coaches, the great strategists come to mind: John Wooden, Dean Smith, Bobby Knight. NBA coaches are getting better. Very few are left who wear those medallions on big metal chains around their necks. The new trend setters have been the three Lakers' coaches since Bill Sharman--the ones who lost out to Richard Gere for the lead in "American Gigolo...
...Nixon to he to the American people about U.S. action abroad. We had all hoped that the crisis of integrity our government underwent was scrapped along with the E. Howard Hunts and G. Gordon Liddys. But if U.S. involvement in the Guatemalan coup constitutes the beginning of a trend, more turmoil lies ahead...