Word: trended
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...applaud. Coinciding with his goals outlined in the State of the Union, Bush proposed new federal grants of up to $4,000 dollars for students studying math, science, and certain foreign languages. Republicans and Democrats alike have called for new legislation to stunt what they see as a trend of a decreasingly competitive U.S.—particularly in the fields of technology and engineering. We hope that the proposed initiative will serve as an incentive for students to study fields in which the U.S. is lagging. In the end, however, the numbers don’t add up. Proposing...
...Senators who have attacked these measures want to specify a more stringent standard under which the FBI can demand these records, as well as address what they see as the lack of meaningful judicial review of the provisions. But some students said they were most preoccupied with the broader trend of increasing government access to personal information. “People who are concerned about the Patriot Act aren’t as concerned about the implications now as they are for what it might mean about the direction America is taking,” Eric D. Lang...
...There’s a long history of graduate programs taking in more people than they can find jobs for,” she said. “And that is a general trend that graduate programs are trying to reduce...
...trend is to fund programs with a more specialized focus, that could undermine overall access,” Day said...
...study showed that there was a trend towards greater incidence of sexual harassment at private colleges, four-year colleges, and larger university campuses. There were also disparities at private universities between the students’ assessments of their own experiences and their perceptions of the rest of the campus...