Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...squads' trading shots after quick rushes down the floor. The eventual shift in momentum may be traced to Crimson domination on the boards, which totally denied the Big Green any second shots. The Crimson led in rebounding in the first half by an overpowering 11-4, a trend which was continued and strengthened in the second half...
...Zeffirelli's Endless Love, due out this summer. No one doubts that it was her 1978 film, Louis Malle's haunting Pretty Baby, in which she played a twelve-year-old prostitute, that inspired whatever campy fad exists for very young models. Students of the ridiculous have noticed a trend, or at least a good, hard try at a trend, toward gunking half-sprouted twelve-and 13-year-olds with alarming quantities of makeup and pinning them into getups suitable for jaded jet-setters. The microboppers rigged out in their mothers' clothes have caused a few yelps on the fashion...
...trend continued in the next five weight classes. Brian and Dave Baer lost major decisions to their Princeton opponents by identical 10-2 scores at 150 and 167, and Sean Healey got the short end of a 7-5 decision at 158. Wes Carrion was dominated by the Princeton 177, pounder and lost a major decision, 12-3. And Mark Cooley's ailing knee caused Lee to forfeit the 190-lb. match...
...current problem is the attraction of India's ruling class to the ideas and values of the West. Although more pronounced today with the homogenous transportation of culture through electric media, this "Westernizing" trend has had impact on Indian culture and politics for much of the twentieth century. Much of the way India perceives itself depends on how it senses the West perceives India. For this reason, Indians raised and educated outside of the country have played the cornerstone role in modern life and politics, as their expression usually derives meaning from the translation of ideas between Indian and Western...
There has, however, been a "very clear turnaround" in the trend of students away from graduate study in the arts and sciences, Leape said. "Students are going to give it a try," she said, adding that they may end up using their Ph.D's for "personal enrichment...