Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Such attention most likely will exacerbate a trend seen in recent months--the increasing disenchantment of many, even in the traditional CCA coalition, with "extreme stands" on housing issues. The question first arose when David Sullivan last spring tried to add new teeth to the anti-condo ordinance. Grumblings about "going too far" were soon heard, and the furor that surrounded attempts to prosecute some condo purchasers were effective weapons not only for Independent slate councilors but also for Wilkes. Though councilor Saundra Graham stuck staunchly behind Sullivan, West Cambridge representatives of the traditional CCA like Francis H. Duehay...
...selection of moderates for his Cabinet, inspired a hopeful response from Washington. "It's wait and see," said one State Department official. "We are cooling it. We are not about to cast the first stone." Europeans were equally cautious in their analysis. Noted one senior British diplomat: "The trend in almost all European countries is for a new leader, whether of the left or the right, to dilute the more radical policy pronouncements of his election manifesto and resort to good old pragmatism...
...Americans-and 20 million more who believe they are-will join in the battle of the bulge by dieting this year; and an alltime high of 440,000 patients will elect cosmetic surgery to freshen their features and tuck in their tummies. As if to give the surprisingly durable trend an official fillip, President and Mrs. Reagan have joined the race. A Universal-type weight-lifting machine has just been installed in a spare room of the White House family quarters for almost daily workouts...
...physical workout is brisk and tiring. Vivacious Jacki Sorensen, 38, the guru of the trend, who now oversees the 42-state chain of Aerobic Dancing Inc. studios, began the movement in 1971 from a church basement in South Orange, N.J. Says she: "It's a fad gone stir crazy." Indeed, Sorensen's and a host of other programs attract an amazing 6 million participants a month. Says a student at Jon Devlin's Dancercise in New York: "My main reason for coming is my head. If I miss three days, I have to come...
...Fenn Jr. '44 said attendance figures at the library have increased, not decreased, recently, adding, "There is a very clear trend upwards...