Word: fad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...frame, as the book suggests, is frequently a matter of the masses following a fad that someone behind the scenes has set in motion. After all, if no one had put the idea in our heads that he was a sex symbol, who would be impressed with an asexual, surgically reconstructed rock star like Michael Jackson...
...they ever go into effect, cease-fires in what was once Yugoslavia tend to be a passing fad; roughly 30 have come and gone since the civil wars began in June 1991. Nonetheless, leaders of the Serb, Croat and Muslim communities of Bosnia-Herzegovina, conferring in London through intermediaries (they refused to talk face-to-face) arranged one more truce, which was supposed to begin this Sunday evening. Even on the off chance that it holds, will there be enough of Bosnia left to call a country? The answer probably...
...There's a real fad out there with theraspberry flavor and color," he said. "This istaking a Nerd concept and putting raspberry rightin the middle...
...nearly 5,000 jobs and $170 million into the state's economy by the year 2000. Georgia's legislature plans to consider a $150,000 grant to the University of Georgia to find ways to increase the hatching rate (now 30%) and reduce chick mortality. "It's beyond the fad stage," claims Kenny Page, avian-medicine professor at the university. "It is where the chicken industry was 30 years...
...customers who help the companies rack up these astounding sales figures all deny that they've bought into a fad. They don't deny the fad's existence; they simply blame the fed on other people...