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A slow and painful trend toward unification has taken hold, a trend which may at any time be arrested and reversed but which may also lead to a binding federation of Europe.
Possibly responsible for this is the incoming trend toward multicolor schemes in rooms, which seems slated to replace the one-color look to which we have been accustomed.
This can be accomplished substantially by a continued trend toward better facilities and techniques for fire control and more resources to cope with critical fire periods, and a more intensive application of a program of prevention, detection, and control of insect and disease infestations.
The Title 8, program of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 was a great spur to this trend toward area schools.
Some of this trend toward area vocational schools has been related to the problems of persistent labor surplus areas and their desire to attract new industry.
There are serious dangers involved in this trend toward rising Federal expenditures, of which I take a dim view, but it seems very likely to occur.
That reference in the Report is `` continuation of the trend toward an all-Negro school system '', a remark apparently occasioned by the increase of Negro school population from 74.1 per cent to 76.7 per cent.
In urethane foams, for example, there has been a definite trend toward the polyether-type materials ( which are now available in two-component rigid foam systems ) and the emphasis is definitely on one-shot molding.
Virtually everyone agrees, however, that the trend toward female sexual aggressiveness was tremendously accelerated with the postwar rush to the suburbs.
Today's trend toward furniture designs from America's past is teaching home-owners and decorators a renewed respect for the shrewd cabinetmakers of our Colonial era.
The trend throughout the world's religions has been toward a recognition of at least the practical validity of this constitutional enactment.
An increase in literacy has, historically, sometimes spawned a trend toward abbreviation.
A trend toward composite armour is taking place in place of steel-composites are stronger for a given weight, allowing the tank to be lighter for the same protection as steel armour, or better protected for the same weight.
In the 20th century the trend toward abstraction coincided with advances in science, technology, and changes in urban life, eventually reflecting an interest in psychoanalytic theory.
As television became filled with family-oriented comedies, the 1950s saw a trend toward more adult social situations.
Although the NATO countries did not adopt an intermediate-power round, they continued the trend toward shorter and lighter magazine-fed battle rifles.
This fossil species bears a combination of features that definitively mark it as a canid: teeth that include the loss of the upper third molar ( a general trend toward a more shearing bite ), and the characteristically enlarged bony bulla ( the rounded covering over the middle ear ).
Another trend in Western scholarship of China has been to move away from " grand theories " of history, toward an understanding of a narrow part of China.
From time to time the process reversed for a period, but overall the trend has been strongly toward lower rainfall.
Either way, the trend is toward the modern Australian environment of highly flammable open sclerophyllous forests, woodlands and grasslands, none of which are suitable for large, slow-moving browsing animals — and either way, the changed microclimate produces substantially less rainfall.
The change to the dollar also precipitated a trend toward lower interest rates in El Salvador, helping many to secure credit in order to buy a house or a car ; over time, displeasure with the change has largely disappeared, though the issue resurfaces as a political tool when elections are on the horizon.
With increasing concern over both the methods and products of modern industrial agriculture, there has been a growing trend toward sustainable agricultural practices.
In the history of computer science, the 4GL followed the 3GL in an upward trend toward higher abstraction and statement power.
Attempted explanations have included improved nutrition, a trend toward smaller families, better education, greater environmental complexity, and heterosis ( the occurrence of genetically superior offspring from mixing the genes of its parents ).
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This brought the group prominence as one of the preeminent European new music ensembles, and brought international attention to the emerging trend of Hungarian minimalism.
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One common trend in the development of programming languages has been to add more ability to solve problems using a higher level of abstraction.
Arnold was an outspoken critic of the trend towards high levels of abstraction in mathematics during the middle of the last century.
The Blue Mountain ( 1908 – 1909 ) was painted at this time, demonstrating his trend toward abstraction.
Perhaps as a reaction to such excess and in parallel with trends in the arts and architecture, scenery began a trend towards abstraction, although realistic settings remained in evidence, and are still used today.
Furthermore, noting the trend to abstraction in New Math, Kline says " abstraction is not the first stage but the last stage in a mathematical development " ( p. 98 ).
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In an attempt to reverse the downhill trend by stimulating the bone marrow and controlling any hemolytic component, triamcinolone, 16 mg. daily, was begun on Sept. 26, 1958, and continued until Feb. 18, 1959.
To many experts, this trend was inevitable.
The temptation is to say that, as the percentage of church members mounted, the degree of discipline exercised by the churches lessened and the trend was towards conformity to the general level.
This was part of a more general trend of postmodernism that was popular contemporaneously.
“ Baby Signs ” was developed by Dr. Linda Acredolo and Dr. Susan Goodwyn in the early 1980s, and has become a persistent trend in child development.
In the 18th century the " dominant trend " in Britain, particularly in Latitudinarianism, was towards Arianism, with which the names of Samuel Clarke, Benjamin Hoadly, William Whiston and Isaac Newton are associated.
The transition from Miacidae to Carnivora was a general trend in the middle and late Eocene, with taxa from both North America and Eurasia involved.
This trend was due to intense volcanic activity which produced large quantities of carbon dioxide.
A popular trend during the 1920s and afterward was comedy in the form of animated cartoons.
The trend among the young historians was to either write about the new empire or obscure antiquarian subjects.
In a tribute, Mike Brown named the stadium after his father during a time when it was a trend in the NFL to accept corporate offers to have the stadium renamed for a corporation.
Most Arthurian romances of this period produced in English or Welsh did not follow this trend ; Camelot was referred to infrequently, and usually in translations from French.
It is unclear to what extent Chaucer was responsible for starting a trend rather than simply being part of it.
In the 21st century a new trend of NoSQL databases was started.
The trend of releasing director's cuts was first introduced in the early 1980s alongside the rise of the home video industry.
With the string section laid off, synthesisers took a dominating role, as was the trend in the larger music scene of the time, although studio strings were present on some of the tracks conducted by Rainer Pietsch, the overall soundscape had a more electronic feel in keeping with the futuristic nature of the album.
The long trend of growth in living standards paired with diminishing differences between social classes was dramatically reversed during the 1990s.
This trend was followed in Italy, Denmark, and Sweden.
Once underway, the trend was aided by the move towards the increasing use of cuts within scenes in American films.
The general trend in the development of cinema, led from the United States, was towards using the newly developed specifically filmic devices for expression of the narrative content of film stories, and combining this with the standard dramatic structures already in use in commercial theatre.
The commercial and critical success of Sternberg's silent Underworld in 1927 was largely responsible for spurring a trend of Hollywood gangster films.
" Stranger on the Third Floor was not recognized as the beginning of a trend, let alone a new genre, for many decades.
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