Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the more than $1 billion received annually from various sources that is poured into cancer research, only a small percentage has gone to oncagene research. The trend, however, is shifting, says. Director of the Dana Farber Cancer Institutre Emil Frei...
With all its dimensions and contradictions, Jake's character entails an unusual challenge given the Hollywood trend to treat its young male leads as Calvin Klein underwear models and the general willingness of its leads to seem even devoid of that much acting ability. Much of the success of Firstborn comes from Christopher Collet's masterful performance as Jake, offering even in his sassiest scenes a glimpse into the conflict tearing at him. How disappointing, then, that Firstborn must nonetheless include the de rigeur weightlifting scenc in Jake's bedroom...
...arrival of this lubricious pair just now is a coincidence, not the harbinger of a trend. In the main, Hollywood pictures since the mid-'70s have been sexually arid. Even the horny teen romps use the erotic impulse only as the setup for an anatomical punch line. Among the box-office hits of 1984, only the Clint Eastwood melodrama Tightrope had much to say about the dark night of the libido, and much of that was muffled under the bang-bang of a climactic chase. For that matter, De Palma and Russell are eccentric outsiders, and so are their...
...People used to think that the only way to get out of a trend of poverty was industrialization. That's a piece of garbage," Gilles said. "Very few countries that have neglected agriculture have succeeded in getting out of a poverty trap," he added...
...phenomena in recent years may illustrate the program's inability to attract prospective due to the quality minority student's post-matriculation experience. First, there has been a trend in decreasing numbers of Black students choosing to come to Harvard. Some Black students and admissions officers attribute this in part to negative publicity about Harvard's race relations in recent years...