Word: fad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fad...
Though the popularity of E-tickets is quicklyrising, E-tickets themselves are not a newinvention. Value Jet introduced E-tickets as itsprinciple method of ticketing in the late 1980s tocut costs and to save money. The fad was picked upby American Airlines and then spread to the restof the airline industry. However, althoughE-tickets themselves are not new, the technology involved is. A revamping of E-tickettechnology has led all three major airlines to notonly encourage the use of E-ticketing but toendorse its use to all of their customers...
...JUMP! The trampoline, a huge fad in kid fun, now ranks as one of the most dangerous. Fractures, dislocations and other injuries exceed 60,000 a year--up 100% over...
...revival, it should come as no surprise that an old-fashioned drug store in Harvard Square is doing brisk business catering to our collective yearning for authentic Americana. However, the attention that Billings and Stover has garnered, along with its regular customers, has made it more than a retro fad...
...generally reticent creature, Beene nevertheless reserves a vocal distaste for the followers and creators of fad. "I'd rather look at some of the horrible things you see on the street than some of the horrible things you see coming from Paris at the moment," he says, referring to the theatrics of John Galliano and Alexander McQueen. On the impact of grunge: "It was stronger than anyone wishes to admit." Beene believes the look led to an unceasing fascination with clunky, cumbersome footwear. "The one thing that could define this decade is those ugly shoes," he says. "I can only...