Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...begins The Jewel of the Nile, the latest installment in what is certain to be a long line of Romancing the Stone sequels. Succumbing to the xerox-machine method of screenwriting and directing which characterized the trend-setting originals of this genre, Raiders of the Lost Ark and its arklet, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, film executives Michael Douglas, Lewis Teague and chief xeroxers Mark Rosenthal and Lawrence Konner have produced an entirely familiar if less satisfying version of the entertaining 1983 romantic, romancing, thriller...
...color-blind society. A society, that in the words of Dr. King, judges people not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character," proclaimed Ronald Reagan, blatantly misrepresenting Dr. King's words and intentions. Turning Dr. King into Dr. Pawn. Following the right-wing trend. Turning civil rights into civil wrongs. Edwin Meese blowing out the candles by spitting on the cake...
...Robinson, the editor-in-chief of the National Law Journal in New York City, says the trend is a serious problem. "I believe law schools should put more emphasis on training law students for the public sector. Lawyers should remember it's their duty to make the legal profession as accessible as possible to all members of society and not just to the rich. More emphasis should be placed on law as a responsible profession than as a business...
...vanished from corporate treasuries and been replaced with IOUs that must be paid. By the end of the third quarter, American firms had built up $1.4 trillion in debt. In the same period corporate debt has increased more than 10% annually. These big borrowings, moreover, are part of a trend that has seen almost every sector of the U.S. economy become a rapidly growing debtor. From the $200 billion federal budget deficit to the $530 billion in outstanding consumer credit, America has become a buy-now, pay-later nation...
...real events have a way of belying scenarios, and in the past few years the most striking and heavily publicized trend in German art has been back to the very kind of painting that obsessed the German avant-garde before 1914: fervent, ejaculatory, based on the human figure and full of pretensions toward expressive plangency and "primitive" directness. There has been a like revival of the kind of acrid satire and political chronicling that occupied the German Dadaists and Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) painters in the '20s. The image stream of German expressionism went underground, but not even Nazism could...