Word: trend
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...Riley said the eviction reflects a national trend in which "revolutionary bookstores across the country are facing similar attacks." He added that communist bookstores in Seattle, New York City and Berkeley, Calif., have recently faced eviction because "the ruling class feels itself threatened" by revolutionary literature...
...added that he will stress the "overriding importance of new science and technology in a whole range of government programs, ranging from nuclear science to personal health." He said he will also emphasize the government trend towards granting contracts to private companies on science issues...
Republicans such as Hatch have avoided linking the two legislative battles as elements of a larger civil rights confrontation. A spokesman for the Utah senator said yesterday that Hatch and his colleagues "have not tied the issues together, but the trend toward getting the federal government out of localities is now clear and will only get stronger...
...recent article in Artforum magazine, critic Ronny H. Cohen describes a contemporary trend in art that is similarly aggressive, one that may have evolved from Dada by way of Pollock and the Abstract Expressionists of the 1950s. Cohen dubs the work of the artists "Energism" and states that Energist works have the ability to "flash out pictorial/emotive expression with such force that the impact freezes us." What the works fear most "is the possibility of coming across as boring." Significant in Cohen's analysis is that Energism (like Dada) is defined not by a set of formal criteria...
...line-up, Harvard knew it was in trouble when center Karen Smith fouled out, leaving only Elaine Holpuch to battle the big guns of UMass. Harvard's guards did somewhat better, expecially Boutilier with a game-high 23 points, and kept turnovers down to a minimum--an encouraging trend for the hoopsters...