Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...move is designed to head off Pepsi's increasing success with its viscous, sticky-sweet product. While the market-share figures don't indicate an imminent end for Coke, the trend in the last five years has been toward Pepsi...
...want to come down too hard on B.C. You'll see this phenomenon on many college campuses, and the problem of homogeneity is not limited to institutions of higher learning. Our mass culture induces people to become part of the in trend, and condones a conformity that is dangerous to everyone's individuality...
...dollars building new prisons, they will surety be used. The baby-boom generation is rapidly aging. It seems likely that--provided levels of poverty in this country do not continue to grow and thereby feed crime--the number of criminals in the U.S. should soon decline along this demographic trend. The more prisons we build, the greater will be the temptation to imprison people for minor offenses or to neglect taking measures against the social causes of crime...
...calls the goal of Nazi concentration camps "to put down any resistance to Nazism," and says that "their terror centered on the Communists and militant social democrats who were the hard core of the resistance." What makes this even more frightening is that this is part of a larger trend of faulty revisionist history that threatens to erase or distort the memory of the Holocaust...
EXPERTS AGREE that the plethora of criticism is indicative of a conservative trend in American culture, an attempt to recover from what Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education Steven Ozment called "the hangover from the '60s," when traditional requirements were generally abandoned under student and faculty pressure. Along with a yen for argyle sweaters and fervent anti-communism. observers have demonstrated a desire for a return to strict standards in higher education. But not everyone thinks that the situation should be presented in such crisis terms...