Word: trend
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...future of their movement. Speakers and delegates alike credited Reagan with having permanently changed the national agenda to make the conservative voice not just relevant but dominant. "The country is in an antiliberal mood," said Howard Phillips, chairman of the Conservative Caucus. "Ronald Reagan has ridden this trend." The rightward tilt of young voters, who chose Reagan over Democrat Walter Mondale in 1984 by 60% to 40%, provided further cause for optimism. Said Attorney General Edwin Meese: "The excitement on the campuses is all from the conservative movement...
Some entrepreneurs see the trend toward privatization as an opportunity to create large new corporations. Nashville Attorney Tom Beasley formed Corrections Corp. of America with two partners in 1983. One of his first investors was Jack Massey, the Nashville financier who built the Kentucky ) Fried Chicken empire and Hospital Corp. of America, the largest U.S. chain of for-profit hospitals...
...Aquino, in a statement released 10 hours after polls closed at 3 p.m. yesterday (2 a.m. EST), said, "The trend is clear and irreversible. The people and I have won and we know...
Kosslyn's confusion does much to enlightendiscussion of psychology's development. Pattullosays it's possible that psychology has not yetdetermined its relation to other disciplines, andsays the current preoccupation with hard sciencemight be a trend that will pass. "You're still inthe stage of laying the groundwork," he says...
...long drift away from an interdisciplinary approach to several social sciences and toward what one department member calls a "quasi-biological" view of psychology. According to experts, the Harvard department's name change could increase other universities' emphasis on the "hard science" aspects of psychology and might fuel the trend of psychologists who emphasize the "social" in social science to look for non-traditional academic arrangements...