Word: fad
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...large questions loom over the Army's efforts: Is Lean Six Sigma just a management fad? And can a system designed to maximize profits and market share work in an enterprise whose goal is national security? Says an analyst who studies government procurement: "How is the Army going to judge success? Cutting people or saving money is useful, but the challenge will be making sure all the changes are not only relevant to the soldier in the field but that there aren't negative impacts for war fighting." Some outside experts have also raised doubts about the Army's ability...
Every decade or so, a fad comes out of nowhere and sweeps the world. It helps if it's inane: Frisbees and hula hoops (the '50s), polyester pant suits ('70s), the Macarena ('90s). Then the fever subsides and disappears, leaving parents to explain to their kids what the commotion was all about. The usual lame response...
...latest fad is Sudoku, a number game in a box, In less than two years, the puzzle has won a popularity that verges on the epidemic. It now appears daily in newspapers on all six inhabited continents and has spawned hundreds of magazines, not to mention dozens of books that elbow traditional puzzle volumes off the Barnes & Noble shelves...
America's health-care system has been suffering for years, but the new fad of traveling overseas for elective surgery is a sign of collapse [May 29]. Outsourcing has cost American manufacturing workers their jobs. If it takes hold in the medical world, U.S. hospitals and physicians will have their profits cut. Legislators and health-care professionals must awaken to the severity of the crisis Americans are in. Without adequate health care for middle- to lower-income citizens, more patients will take the opportunity to pay less by outsourcing...
...story "Wanted: New Roomaid" [May 1] reported that the latest fad in living arrangements has the man working full time while sharing a home with a woman who cooks and cleans in return for free rent, no sex involved. What's so new about that? It's called marriage...