Word: trend
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...council, though, is justifiably disturbed by the parade of highly regarded teachers who have left Harvard junior posts to distinguish themselves as full professors at other schools. This trend has motivated Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence to make tenuring Harvard's own top young scholars a top priority, and the Faculty recognizes that its future strength may depend on the dean's success. The challenge now is for Harvard to identify outstanding ability--both, faculty members say, in research and teaching--early in a scholarly career...
Howard Stringer now must keep the network from losing in a limp. "This is a tough and tragic time for us," says the CBS News president. His tough job is to reverse the trend in soaring budgets, sparked a decade ago at all three networks by the lure of high-tech equipment and ABC News President Roone Arledge's U.S.F.L.-style raids on the competition. Sending the A team to sites of big stories is another hefty item; a weekend in Reykjavik cost each network around $1 million. And in the days of affluence, says a former CBS executive...
This study is an example of a growing national trend toward increased critical evaluation of higher education. At Harvard and other universities, educators are trying to assess whether or not higher education is achieving its goals and what those goals should...
INMAN SQUARE IS RAPIDLY becoming an ethnic roto-sampler, with restaurant offerings ranging from the queasy combination of "Pizza and Seafood" to more fashionably exotic offerings like Thai and Korean. The recent Southbound yuppie trend has also swept through Inman Square, depositing yet another Cajun place in its spicy wake. But amidst these rising ethnic stars is a less media-glutted food group. The savory and homey seafood smorgasbord of Portuguese food, which is not the sub-division of Spanish or Mexican many people assume it is, can be found at the Casa Portugal...
...greenback's value to fall against those currencies has finally begun to stimulate U.S. exports by making American products less expensive overseas. That may soon improve the distressing U.S. trade deficit, which reached $170 billion last year. Nonetheless, the trade statistics do not yet show a clear-cut trend. Figures released last week showed that the January deficit was $14.78 billion, which was $600 million lower than in November but a $4.1 billion increase from December...