Word: trend
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...helped win legislative battlesfor protecting and expanding student aid funding,creating the Department of Education, andstrengthening minority education. Of all thecandidates, Simon has the highest lifetime rankingfrom the National Education Association (88percent). Like the other Democratic candidates,Simon has denounced the Reagan budget cuts, andwants to reverse the trend away from grants andtowards repayable loans...
...bend in the trend. Last year movie attendance by those 40 and older rose 56% over the 1986 figures, according to the Motion Picture Association of America. The teen bloc, which still accounts for a hefty portion of the moviegoing universe, is losing the demographic race to yuppies and their elders. Having been tantalized by rented videos, adults are rediscovering the pleasures of moviegoing. Just ask Sidney Ganis, president of worldwide marketing for Paramount, which, spearheaded by such adult hits as The Untouchables and Fatal Attraction, was 1987's top studio. "Older audiences," Ganis says, "now know it's safe...
...decision should also discourage a trend that has led plaintiffs who feel offended by the media to try to collect damages for injury -- to their right of privacy, for instance, or their feelings -- when they cannot make the more difficult case for libel. But the court said last week that even when public figures claim emotional injury, they still must meet the complex "actual malice" standard devised for libel in the landmark 1964 decision New York Times Co. v. Sullivan. In that case, the court said that a public figure must show that a publication knew its statements were false...
Schelling says that the success of Cambridge's anti-smoking policy will lead to more states passing laws governing smoking, and he is now conducting policy studies at the K-School to prepare for such a trend...
...Reagan has amassed a higher deficit total ($1.25 trillion) than all previous Presidents combined. In the process, he and Congress have more than doubled the national debt, to $2.36 trillion. Meanwhile, interest on the debt has snowballed, threatening to bury the financial fortunes of generations to come. If the trend is not slowed, the annual net interest tab will surpass $200 billion in 1992, more than the U.S. deficit. Put another way, the budget would move into surplus were it not for interest on past deficits...