Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blue-ribbon studies, one by the National Advisory Committee on Semiconductors and the other by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Both concluded that what American high-technology industries need is more Government leadership, not less. Said Ian Ross, president of AT&T Bell Laboratories and chairman of NACS: "Every trend you look at is in the wrong direction for the U.S." Next day the Administration reversed itself again, denying that it had any plans for technology budget cuts...
When the Harvard University Press published itsfirst books in 1913, the topics included littlemore than highly specialized scholarly treatises.Since then, however, the trend has been to covercontemporary issues in an academic setting withthe emergence of such topics as AIDS, women'sstudies and technology of the future...
...Over the past two to three years, the trend isin the right direction," Fitzsimmons said...
...Geller explains, "our survey area compared with the visible universe is like Rhode Island compared with the surface of the earth." The bubbles and walls could be isolated phenomena. But, notes Geller: "Every survey ever done has contained structures as big as the survey could contain." If that trend continues, then there are larger objects yet to be found, which will give theorists even worse headaches. "These surveys test in the most acute way our conceptions of how structure developed in the universe," says Ostriker, "and for that reason they are possibly the most important studies in extragalactic astrophysics...
...greenhouse effect has allowed Indian summer to stretch on into the college basketball season. Moreover, I consider it a personal blessing that Jackie Mason was canceled, Donald Trump failed in his efforts to make his name synonymous with American Airlines, Ronald Reagan managed to return from Japan and no trend spotter has successfully named the '90s before they happen...