Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Luxury hotels around the world coddle guests by stocking vials of shampoo and mouthwash, small cans of shaving cream and plastic shower caps in their bathrooms. Now the Shangrila Hotel in Montreal may have started a trend in giveaways. Aware of concern over the AIDS epidemic, management is going to tuck condoms in the welcoming baskets. Says General Manager Pierre Quintal: "We are not condoning any type of promiscuous activity. Like the other products offered in the hotel's rooms, they are there to use if you have the need for them." Sniffed a spokesman at the city's Ritz...
...Lately there has been a trend that collegestudents are becoming more conservative. We areout to try and prove that students are still asliberal as ever," said Samuel J. Lubell '89, oneof the conference's organizers
Indeed, many administrators, while upset at the disturbing trend, seem puzzled about why it is happening and are not sure what to do about it. Though the number of black students has been dropping in many schools, that alone does not explain black frustration. Columbia, for example, claims an 11% enrollment of black undergraduates, a steady ten-year increase and among the highest of old-line private colleges. Said President Michael Sovern: "We thought we had left no doubt that racial harassment is never acceptable, least of all at Columbia...
Gary Hart, the Democratic front runner, declares, "For all practical purposes, we have entered the post-Reagan years." But he knows that the Democrats "won't win by default, or because of some historic trend or tide. We must offer some concrete alternatives to the laissez-faire philosophy of this Administration and to its militaristic foreign policy." Most of the Democratic candidates are cautious about criticizing "militarism," for fear of being tagged antidefense, and even more cautious about advancing big- spender ideas; the national deficit is already ruinous. Hart talks about a "more important role for Government, not necessarily...
Potato chips, America' s favorite fattening munch, thrive despite the fitness trend, with proliferating varieties of shapes and flavors...