Word: fad
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fear that by bringing attention to meditation, your story might be taken by hard-driving overachievers as a more spiritually correct way to acquire fame, fortune and real estate--or just another fad to talk about over cocktails. HARVEY B. USSACH New Bedford, Mass...
...decade ago, Doug Ducey was selling Folgers coffee to restaurants when his West Coast customers began asking for the kinds of pricier gourmet blends served at Starbucks. He dismissed it as a fad. After all, what could possibly change America's coffee-drinking habits...
...Ultimately, though, the high-low collaborative trend may be little more than a fad. Because Japan's fashion industry depends on such a juvenile clientele, designers have had to adjust to even briefer fashion cycles. One top design house in Tokyo estimates that in order to satisfy the ever fickle tastes of young Japanese patrons, domestic labels have had to double their output compared with European clothiers'. The endless search for the next new thing, dubbed shinhatsubai in Japanese, affects everything from orange juice at the convenience store, which contains less pulp in the summer months, to ever so slightly...
...wearying compared with the other films' quirky humanity. It's not a megamovie; it's a Sega movie. The parents just about disappear. (Has any top-billed star spent less time onscreen than Banderas does here?) As for the 3-D glasses: now you know why that '50s fad ended so quickly...
...Water Ball, this summer's fad toy, has consumer-safety advocates alarmed. They warn that the rubber toy poses a strangling hazard for kids. Some parents say their children have managed to swallow the liquid inside, which in some cases has proved to be flammable and toxic. Consumer-protection officials in New York and Massachusetts are urging the product's removal from stores. Peter Tiger, CFO of Imperial Toy Corp., one of several wholesalers marketing the toy, says his company has sold almost 10 million of the yo-yos and insists they are safe. --By Nadia Mustafa