Word: upturn
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Student enrollments have shown a slight upturn in the past few years, but the student-faculty ratio remains low. Some departments complain that they have too few students to sustain their research and seminars, the Strauch Committee reported. In order to remedy the imbalance, the committee recommended an increase in student admissions...
Harvard Professor of Economics Richard B. Freeman, a noted specialist in labor economics, cites the upturn in the American economy since the 1981-82 recession as a possible explanation for recent university labor gains. However, John W. Wilhelm, the chief union negotiator during the Yale strike, says recent worker activity is "just the tip of the iceberg." Union organizing by clerical workers, who are predominantly women, has its roots in the women's liberation movement beginning in the 1960s, says Wilhelm...
California is a prime example of an impressive upturn in state fortunes. While the national deficit, already monstrous, continues to grow at an alarming pace, the vast majority of states are enjoying budget surpluses, the reward for years of belt tightening and budget slashing. The National Conference of State Legislatures estimates that the collective budget surpluses for 1984 total $5.3 billion, more than double the $2.1 billion figure of a year before...
...history. The Administration now must keep the economy humming along. Says Rimmer de Vries, chief international economist of Morgan Guaranty Trust: "The top priority is to make sure the economic expansion continues." The U.S. recovery is about to celebrate its second birthday. Since World War II, the average upturn has lasted about four years, and so it is unlikely that the Reagan Administration will go through its entire second term without another economic dip, perhaps a sizable...
This year's results, suggests Hanford, say that students "have grown up under a different set of circumstances, that their society was more interested in education." According to Chester Finn, professor of education and public policy at Vanderbilt University, the upturn can also be linked to a renewed stress on the fundamentals. The knowledge measured by the SATs, he says, "is the very kind that has been the object of the so-called back-to-basics movement for the past six to eight years...