Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...poll indicates a continuing trend of liberalism at the College. In 1984, 64 percent of undergraduates supported Democrat Walter F. Mondale over President Reagan. Mondale lost that campaign in a record-breaking electoral college landslide, as Reagan pocketed 49 states...
...finding corroborated a long-term trend of low rates of sexually transmitted disease at Harvard, Wacker says, a trend which he says may indicate how AIDS will affect the University community...
Talk about rip-offs. Even the most hardened residents of Detroit's crime- ridden East Side have been stunned by the latest target of some enterprising robbers: aluminum siding. The off-the-wall trend began last year, when siding suddenly began disappearing from abandoned houses around the neighborhood. More recently, aluminum rustlers, emboldened by the local cops' relaxed attitude toward the thefts, have taken to prying off the siding from the garages of occupied homes. Even lawn chairs are no longer safe...
Already La Nina has been credited with a role in causing this summer's drought in the Midwest, the deluges that flooded Bangladesh in September and the severe hurricane season in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. While widespread attention has been paid to the greenhouse effect -- the trend toward global warming due to the increase of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere -- some scientists believe that this winter La Nina will bring on a dramatic, though probably temporary, drop in average global temperatures. Says meteorologist and oceanographer James O'Brien of Florida State University...
There are currently eight full-timeprofessionals at HSA, Epps said. That number wasreached three years ago after HSA lost money forseveral years. a trend which has since been turnedaround mostly due to professional help, he said...