Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next problems with the low-interest mortgages, Sullivan explains, is that they create more capital for the type of buyer who would purchase a condominium, thus "accelerating the trend toward condominium conversion" that city leaders fear will kill Cambridge's diverse neighborhoods. A breakdown of the 22 purchases under the program show that 12 of the units purchased have been condominiums or co-ops; city regulations limiting new condominium conversion, however, may make that less of a problem in the future...
...materials ranging from glass, ivory, gold, or ebony to diamond-studded platinum and even silkworm gut, caused so many complications that they soon fell out of favor. But in the 1960s, with the availability of antibiotics and the development of new plastics that made insertion easier, I.U.D.s proliferated. That trend increased when unexpected side effects were discovered from the popular contraceptive pills...
Fortunately, the Islanders did not abandon their experiment in role reversal. After such a disastrous regular season, they put together a miraculous playoff record, sweeping through the early rounds to reach the finals at last. The Islanders hope the trend continues, for their Stanley Cup opponents are those somewhat reformed thugs at the other end of the New Jersey Turnpike, the Philadelphia Flyers, proud possessors of the league's best regular-season mark: 48 wins, 20 ties and 12 losses, including a record-setting 35-game undefeated streak...
...chairwoman of the A.P.A.'s ethics committee, Patricia Keith-Spiegel, acknowledges that radio psychologists are technically in violation of the association's code, but she argues that the code should be bent to accommodate the new trend. Says she: "My hunch is that they will double or triple in number within the next year or two. We don't want them to say, 'Either I'm going to be a star or a member of the A.P.A.' " In any case, as long as radio shrinks give only chatty-type advice rather than formal diagnoses...
...offering their own service, but with more personnel and at less cost-25? per tuck-in. Asked their ad in the campus paper: "When was the last time you had five girls tuck you into bed?" William L. Thomas, Maryland's vice chancellor for student affairs, endorses the trend. "It's a very gentle custom," he says. When the women heard Thomas wistfully admit he had never been tucked in, they showed up at his office one afternoon with a blanket, a lullaby ("Rock-a-bye baby") and five daughterly pecks on the cheek. Maryland Student Affairs Staffer...