Word: trended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover story "Renewal on the Rhine" [Dec. 9] was excellent and will contribute to the understanding between people and nations. Again, TIME has shown its superiority in reporting world events. You did a great service to the United States and its ally Germany by not following the recent general trend of poisoning the readers with new prejudice and hatred...
Notoriously Lethargic. The strains show elsewhere. Though the A.F.L.-C.I.O. claims to have reversed a seven-year trend of dwindling membership, it has been notoriously lethargic in recruiting the unskilled. Last month, in New York State's Catskill Mountains resort area, ten A.F.L.-C.I.O. locals, representing such craftsmen as carpenters and electricians, actually opposed higher minimum wages for busboys, maids and other nonunion hotel employees, complaining that the increased costs might force some hotels to close and cut down on employment of trade-unionists. Though some member unions have taken at least token steps to ease discrimination against Negroes...
...trend that takes all the surprise out of giving between spouses is the "stag shop" set up by many department stores. The wife comes in to fill out file cards listing several things she would like, and the husband dutifully appears to declare how much he can spend-and to make out his card, which his wife later uses as a guide. "Why not?" asked one woman in Seattle, setting down a description of a beige mink pillbox hat. "The year I didn't fill out a card, my husband gave me a sink garbage disposer." The system would...
...predicted that there will be some Faculty opposition to the proposal. "There's a lot of concern that pass-fail will create pressure on students to take a fifth course, and start a trend away from the four-course system," he said...
...exactly the same grade on thesis and tutorial last year. Departments with a similar system, such as the Economics Department, should adopt the new program to protect their students from double jeopardy grading. But other departments, without a comparable thesis-tutorial structure, apparently will have to wait until the trend away from grades finds its logical conclusion--no grades...