Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decline, confined thus far mostly to the Eastern states, is puzzling scientists from Maine to Alabama. The mysterious selective blight may merely signal shifts in local ecological balances. Or, say the scientists, it may be the start of a trend toward devastation that could eventually engulf the entire Eastern green range. Their worry is not unfounded. An apparently similar malady has ravaged 34% of West Germany's wooded lands, causing an annual $509 million in damages to timber and related industries. So far, the U.S. decline has been measured mostly in aesthetic and recreational losses. But it is beginning...
...trend, like satire, can't succeed with an ignorant audience. During the early 70s, for instance, when citrusscented toiletries were the rage, some un-with-it shoppers exasperated cosmetics counter workers by whining, "But I don't want to smell like a lemon!" Likewise, future generations will scratch their heads over today's Heavy Metal chic, which makes its wearers look like walking chain collisions...
...same outfit can communicate panache or pathos, depending on the nature of the hanger: When attire reflects strongly developed character, the wearer can get away with anything from Preppyism to transvestism, and perhaps (ironically) even inspire a trend in the process. But when fashion becomes an expression of identity crisis, the result is impostership, which only makes the individual look worse for wear...
...Freud's change of belief was anything but good for psychoanalysis Indeed, Masson even writes. By shitting the emphasis from an actual world of sadnes, misery, and cruelty to an internal stage on which actors performed invented dramas for an invisible audience of their own creation. Freud began a trend away from the real world that, it seems to me, is at the root of the present-day sterility of psychoanalysis and psychiatry throughout the world." In The Assault on Truth Masson traces the circumstances and events which he believes led the young Freud away from the seduction theory towards...
...fear that the congressional actions could lead to tighter shackles on exports. Said Howard Lewis, assistant vice president of the National Association of Manufacturers: "Each time the Export Administration Act has been reauthorized, it has become more and more a grab bag of export disincentives. This is a worrisome trend when we are headed toward a $100 billion trade deficit this year." The Commerce Department underscored Lewis' point last week by announcing that in January alone, the U.S. merchandise trade deficit reached a record $9.47 billion...