Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is a starting and fierce efficiency in the way upper-middle class adolescents interact socially. Throw 30 of them together sometime in the morning, and by lunch they will have aligned themselves in firm groups, from the trend-setters to the sheep. They all worry about "their records"--high school, not criminal--and each June some 750 do something about it, they show up for the Harvard Summer Session...
...Trend-setters. Comfortable with the opposite sex and partial to high fashion, the ranking socialites insist on an appearance of casualness while they grind is out just like the rest of them. They shake hands and puck cheeks with studied grace, sometimes sleep together, and always talk about it within earshot of their elders...
...agencies to the stated deficit, the Federal Government borrows about 35% of all the lendable funds in the country. Henry Kaufman, chief economist of the investment banking firm of Salomon Bros., predicts that as a rising deficit bumps up against the borrowing demands of businesses and individuals, "the downward trend of interest rates will probably reverse before midyear, and in the second half, long-term rates will once again threaten their peaks of 1981." Worse, there are widespread fears that the actual deficit will soar beyond Reagan's projections of $98.6 billion this fiscal year and $91.5 billion in fiscal...
...against a strong central Government, Big Business in general, and many of the New Deal's collectivist approaches. "Bigness is always badness," became his familiar refrain. At one point, he threatened "to hold the Government control legislation unconstitutional from now on," unless the Administration reversed the Big Business trend in industry and agriculture. Eventually he recanted, but his threat was taken seriously in the White House...
...Feminin, are now the adults of EST and Perrier. And their movies--An Unmarried Woman, The Goodbye Girl, Kramer Versus Kramer, and now Shoot the Moon--are self-centered and, mostly, boring. Television is now catching on, with ABC offering a TV-movie that cashes in on both the trend toward family crisis dramas and space adventures with the ungainly title Divorce Wars. The books on pop self-analysis which have bloated the "psychology" section of bookstores are the attempt of this generation to try and adjust rock-and-roll ethics to "parenting" and the rest of adulthood. It doesn...