Word: trend
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...endless variety of laws, restrictions, customs and traditions affects the practice of abortion around the world, although the general trend is toward liberalized laws. The Population Council in New York City this week published a study called Induced Abortion: A World Review, 1981, by Dr. Christopher Tietze, the pre-eminent expert on international abortion. Among its findings: 9% of the world's 4.4 billion people live in countries that totally forbid abortion (among them: Spain, the Dominican Republic and Indonesia); 38% live in nations where abortion on request is allowed, at least in the first trimester of pregnancy...
...tight see-saw battle, Adam Beren, playing number two, continued the trend, beating his midshipman opponent...
...Council rejects the GSA's request, it would continue Harvard's all-too-frequently demonstrated tradition of ignoring the spirit of federal codes aimed at securing the rights of minority groups, a trend shown all too clearly in its lackadaisical compliance with affirmative action codes regarding racial minorities and women...
...open-door policy of a decade ago is gone." The fact that almost everyone knows his neighbor has long been a protection in the countryside. Murders, muggings or shootings have not notably increased, but house break-ins and auto and farm-equipment thefts have risen dramatically. One definite trend: thieves from urban areas ranging hundreds of miles to loot rural homes...
...maritime forces shrink to a size where we can't meet all the political commitments we have," says Navy Secretary John Lehman. The Administration's long-term goal, which so far has generated considerable support in Congress, is to reverse the current adverse trend in the rivalry at sea. Explains Lehman: "Parity is an unacceptable concept in naval terms. We're a maritime power, while the Soviet Union is a land power. We can live with stable parity in strategic terms [i.e., intercontinental nuclear forces] and even with disparity in the other side's favor...