Word: trend
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...particular concern to Harvard and other higher education officials is the trend of scientific research funding under the Reagan Administration. In the last seven years the Department of Defense has garnered 90 percent of all new research programs, while the military accounts for more than half of all research and development work in the nation. This trend has diverted funds from the basic scientific research conducted at America's research universities...
Moreover, Harvard officials see dangers in the increasing trend toward "Big Science" projects such as the billion dollar supercollider. They warn that neglecting smaller scientific projects will stifle a large amount of invaluable scientific innovation...
...effect the professor for the public," Kalb says, adding, "policy is the result of the policy maker and the public." But Kalb says that recent developments in the press have unsettled his faith in broadcast journalism. "Network news has undergone profound changes. I worry about the trend toward increasing shallowness, pretension and egomaniacal compulsion," he says. "We must stick to old-fashioned values...
...most controversial issues on campus today is how Harvard is ruled and how power is distributed. The Corporation's power today has clearly overshadowed that of the Board of Overseers, a trend which, as The Crimson observed in the following editorial, was well underway 50 years...
...trend of progressivism, far from being an invention of the New Deal, was merely brought further by Roosevelt after a start under the Hoover administration....Governor Landon has given no indication that he desires to abandon the reconstructive measures of Roosevelt. His views on social security, farm aid, conservation of resources, and relief all bear the stamp of a man devoted to the needs of the people. His lieutenants are singularly suited to carry forth a progressive program; they would well merit the name "brain trust," were that name not in such ill repute. And who would not prefer William...