Word: trend
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Last year may have shown some trend towards more genuine compliance: four previously all-male departments--English, History, Anthropology and Psychology--each hired a women for a tenured professorship. Such efforts should continue, and the current review by the administration of the Sociology Department, whose denial of tenure last year to Theda R. Skocpol, former associate professor of Sociology, seems to reflect sexism, conscious or otherwise, should be particularly exhaustive...
Like bulwarks along an abandoned beach, federal regulations designed to protect the consumer are crumbling against the new tide of free-market economics championed by Ronald Reagan. Most businessmen see the trend as a key to reviving the economy. But consumer activists see it as a catastrophe and are busily seeking ways to slow it. "Consumers are being ignored," says Ralph Nader, patriarch of the movement. 'This Administration is out to destroy the rule of law as it applies to corporations...
...CETA and Social Security payments. So, it is up to us to wonder exactly what if any solidarity exists among American working people in the United States. Although union leaders defend the air traffic controllers strike officially, they must have little sympathy for PATCO because the growing trend of strikes by public employee has loomed large in the declining popularity of organized labor. The president's legislative successes this summer in implementing the proposals that attracted many blue-collar workers last November can hardly be a cause of solidarity...
Last year may have shown some trend towards more genuine compliance: four previously all-male departments-English, History, Anthropology and Psychology-each hired a women for a tenured professorship. Such efforts should continue, and the current review by the administration of the Sociology Department, whose denial of tenure last year to Theda R. Skocpol, former associate professor of Sociology, seems to reflect sexism, conscious or otherwise, should be particularly exhaustive...
...city afternoon papers are particularly vulnerable because their best readers have fled to the suburbs, where newspaper trucks in afternoon traffic jams have trouble reaching them, and evening television brings more up-to-date news. But another trend is more devastating: when one paper dominates a city, increasingly it is winner take...