Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since then, Bill Gehling's booters haven't fared so well, dropping 3-1, 5-1, and 4-0 decisions. Last year, in an effort to reverse that losing trend, the Jumbos instituted the infamous "Tufts sag"--a positioning of as many as eight defenders in and around the penalty area to ward off the Harvard forwards...
Over the past several years a trend toward less leave-taking and less off-campus living has been crowding the upperclass Houses more and more. That, combined with especially large sophomore and junior classes, has resulted in the unusual crowding this year...
...most states inclined to buck the antiregulation trend. In Texas, for example, consumerists could hardly get committee hearings this year for their bills, and fought a rear-guard action to prevent weakening of existing laws. The budget signed into law this summer by Massachusetts Governor Edward King eliminates that state's consumer council...
...product, a decline in the pace of salary increases should slow down the rate of price rises. Average hourly earnings were jumping at a pace of almost 11 % during the last quarter of 1980, but in the past three months the rate of increase was about 7%. If this trend continues, it could be the key to a reduction in inflation and interest levels...
Once, hardly anyone except a Graham Greene character could manage such Gethsemanes of exhaustion. Today, burnout is a syndrome verging on a trend. The smell of psychological wiring on fire is everywhere. The air-traffic controllers left their jobs in part, they said, because the daily tension tended to scorch out their circuits (the primitive "flee-or-fight" reaction to danger squirted charges of adrenaline into bodies that had to remain relatively immobile, tethered by duty to scope and computer...