Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...collided with a city that for 50 years had based its culture on spending more and more of the taxpayers' money. Her husband came to slow the trend. Nancy Reagan was judged harshly by some lingering partisans of the counterculture: the devoted wife was somehow suspect, the pursuit of everyday excellence often judged a waste of energy, and mediocrity celebrated in dress, manners and mind. Lace butterflies can get crushed. She almost...
...trend, of course, is benefiting many people. The same consumer who pays high interest on a mortgage or auto loan may well be collecting high interest on a certificate of deposit or an investment in a money market mutual fund. Those who can avoid borrowing and have dollars to lend are reaping a bonanza...
...seen the inclusion in the Core of a foreign cultures category and the stiffening of the language requirement." Says Special Assistant to President Bok Robert Klitgaard, who was commissioned in 1979 to review the University's international activities. "In this instance, Harvard seems to be going against the national trend...
Massey described the rising trend of suspicion against new technology in the United States which he believes stems from scientists neglecting to educate the population at large "What people do not understand they will distrust" he said...
...Jane Thompson, assistant director of admissions at the Law School, said she had "no idea" about the reason for the upward trend in law school applications She said "every time we raise our application fee, we have a higher application rate." Thompson added that they would actually be pleased if fewer people applied...