Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cornell and Dartmouth admissions officers said last week that the down-ward trend in applications could be a result of demographics combined with a tendency among high school seniors toward filing fewer applications...
Meislahn said possible reasons for this trend are the increase in early action applications and a tendency for students to be dissuaded by tales of rejections resulting from multiple applications...
...letter to Healy, CTU Co-Chairs Michael H. Turk and Robert O. Edbrooke charged that Rickard's activity at 52-54 Fairmont was only a small part of a trend, "whereby Ms. Rickard...acquires and moves into a rent controlled property and decontrols it...and moves on to the next property...
China first hinted at a change of heart by pointedly referring to Gorbachev as "comrade" following his rise to power in 1985. But most of the diplomatic action -- and concessions -- in the march toward reconciliation has come from Moscow. As diplomats in Britain sum up the warming trend: "Russia woos and China coos...
Proponents of this trend say career changers are often more motivated and more effective than teachers who took the conventional path to the blackboard. "These are a different type of teacher," says Dianne Worthy, South Carolina's supervisor of teacher education. "They bring more life experience with them...