Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tendency to resuscitate his general premises and conclusions every 20 pages or so; maybe he's thinking of some tenure committee somewhere. The point that he weaves implicitly into the work is made clumsily explicit, with repeated statments that this or that action in baseball integration reflected some' rational trend. His twisted explanation, moreover, for why white players in the 1890s rejected interracial competition--that it was a reflection of the "culture of professionalism" emerging at the end of the 19th century in America--is an example of a number of instances where Tygiel would do well just to call...
...packaged with colorful graphics. USA Today's controversial approach to delivering the news has in effect been treated like a news story itself: as the media tells it, the bite-sized items offered by television have now made their way into print. The results, critics conclude, is an alarming trend of superficiality that disregards the truth and threatens the institution of journalism...
...from a population today of 631,000 down to just 376,500 at century's end. No sooner had that radical drop been forecast than other number crunchers disagreed. "It's just not going to happen," says George Grier, a Washington demographer. How does he know? "No trend," Grier says, "lasts forever...
...Pacific of 81°F, down by nearly 8°F from their May highs. Along the South American coast, waters remain unnaturally warm (as much as 6°F above their normal 78°), but the waters have slowly begun to cool since May, and scientists expect the trend to continue...
Author Raymond Carver, 45, has successfully bucked this trend toward the gentrification of short fiction. Furthermore, he has done so in part in The New Yorker, where three of the twelve stories in Cathedral originally appeared...