Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Organizers expressed concern over a trend in recent years away from donating blood, which they said stemmed from nervousness about the origins of the AIDS virus and a student body that "is not as service-minded...
...same time, the number of small individual investors who own stock has been steadily shrinking, and the Boesky scandal may well accelerate that trend. Says Bill Kasten, an account executive in the Chicago offices of the E.F. Hutton investment firm: "Smaller investors now think that they're just crumbs in the pie, that they have no control." Agrees Robert Nichols, president of Los Angeles-based RNC Capital Management: "If we don't restore the public's confidence, the public is going to exit and not come back...
...acquisition trend, however, is still vulnerable to further Boesky- related disclosures, and the odds are good that there will be plenty. Most of the furor that the Boesky case has caused so far comes from the SEC's Nov. 14 judgment against the arbitrage superstar. That, in turn, was based on the relationship investigators uncovered between Boesky and Dennis Levine, the former managing director of Drexel Burnham who first blew open the scandal when he was charged last May with illegal trading in 54 stocks...
...absorbed through the skin, the cycles of these women speeded up or slowed down toward 29.5 days. The irregular cycles of six women in a control group, dabbed with only pure alcohol, remained the same. In a second group, ten women who received female essence showed a significant trend toward synchronized menstrual periods after only a few cycles. A control group showed no such change...
...Native Son crisis is contributing to the breakdown of the family structure in the inner city, a trend that is seen as both a cause and an effect of the poverty cycle. According to Census Bureau statistics, nearly two-thirds of all black children are born to unwed mothers. Of the nation's 4.6 million black families with children, 2.6 million are headed by a single woman -- and in some ghetto areas it is estimated to be close to 90%. As a result, most inner-city black children never know the experience of having a father at home with steady...