Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last season the trend continued when the Minutemen handed Harvard not one, but two losses--the second in the EAIAW tournament--as the team managed an uncustomary 14-7 mark...
...roller-coaster 1920s were particularly bad times for small business. Economic growth gyrated wildly, but the overall trend was briskly upward. In 1922 the economy expanded at an extraordinary rate of nearly 16%, but business failures also leaped up, to 23,676 for the year, or 120 per 10,000 firms. In 1924 economic growth declined by .2%; and business failures eased back too, totaling 20,615 for the year. In 1929, the year of the Crash, the total stood at no more than 22,909, a modest decline from the previous year's 23,842. The worst year...
...gripping the country's campuses. In this case, we're less convinced of the specific than the general; most students seem to be laughing at the boys in Eliot. But we do think this campus, like many others, will see more conservatism in the future. That is a trend a campus publication due out this month--The Harvard Salient--hopes to accelerate...
Susan Redlich of the Massachusetts Department of Food and Agriculture agreed with Rosenthal and Dickinson that "a plan of regional self-reliance in agriculture is both reasonable and viable." The trend towards large, corporate-owned farms stems from "tax breaks that give disproportionate benefits to large farms, even though medium to small farms are more efficient," Redlich said
...what extent are you concerned by the trend toward neutralism in Europe? Is it a limited problem or a real danger...