Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most important statistic released last week was the unemployment rate. After dropping from 5.6% in March to 5.4% in April, it bounced back to 5.6% in May, leaving economists mystified about the trend. While the jobless rate is generally considered to be among the most accurate of the figures the Government puts out, economists argue over how to interpret the number. A 5.6% unemployment rate sounds fairly bad in an absolute sense, but some experts say that it overstates the degree of distress because a large number of those listed as out of work are people who are voluntarily moving...
...look at [the council] over the period since the council has formed, I think that it has really become much more depoliticized as a long term trend," said Kimberly B. Ladin...
...report and several minority professors say that the University must abandon its mentality of "passive recruitment." They say that the low overall numbers of minorities in academia exacerbate the difficulty Harvard faces, but they argue that the primary responsibility lies with insufficient efforts to reverse this trend on the part of the University...
...noticed a major change in where seniors want to work. Although statistics are not yet available, Linda Z. Chernick, associate director of the OCS, says, "We had a very slight decrease" in the number of students interested in investment banking. "It wasn't a hugely dramatic trend, one way or the other...
...realm of politics, this tendency towards cynicism is accentuated, what with people running around the country obviously attempting to achieve a position of power and trying to convince others they deserve it. But the trend extends to realms where it can be less easily forgiven, such as scholarly discussions of philosophy...