Word: trended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some concentrations went against the trend,however. Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations,a small department, got poor marks on questionssuch as satisfaction with academic and personaladvice, while students praised the largerDepartment of Biochemistry on the survey...
...rights of women and gays. Gov. Carnahan made the wrong decision as a politician when he allowed himself to be influenced by a religious leader instead of by legal argument or genuine moral reversal. As a country, we'll be making the wrong decision if we allow the trend shown in the Princeton poll to continue. Church and state are separated with good reason--and women should know that better than anyone...
...decades we have learned that the best thing government can do is rid itself of involvement in the private economy. From Britain to Chile to China, privatization has everywhere proved an economic boon. Investing Social Security funds in the private economy is a total reversal of this salutary trend. The idea is to get government out of private industry...
...your company had better sponsor a team of top skateboarders. But core is more than an aggressive, participatory attitude. It's also a vibe, a quasi-mystical, anti-Establishment subtext that has to permeate a firm and come across in marketing and advertising so that it resonates with trend-setters up and down the coast and then across the country...
...homework declined to near World War II levels. But fears about U.S. economic competitiveness and the publication of A Nation at Risk, the 1983 government report that focused attention on the failings of American schools, ratcheted up the pressure to get tough again. Other forces have kept the trend heading upward: increasing competition to get into the best colleges and the batteries of statewide standardized tests--starting in grade school in a growing number of states--for which teachers must prepare their pupils...