Word: trend
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...model's complex logic is exhilarating, but a Catch-22 struck hard. The ease of substitution parameter does not represent a behavioral assumption to guide projections; it is not a figure graven in stone, but an empirical result determined from historical data. Projecting the ease of substitution trend into the future is guesswork--nothing more, nothing less. Depending on the figure chosen, the model could predict either economic disaster or conservation harmlessly reducing national energy needs...
...longer explicitly invited to "sit down on my face," as was the case when the Eaters sang at The Rat; instead, Cataldo merely reminds us that he longs for "another taste" of said girl. While not in itself a major issue, this could signify a disturbing trend...
David S. Broder, professional political trend-watcher for the Washington Post, sees the Boom too, and announces portentously at the beginning of his new book that "America is changing hands." As they swelled colleges in the sixties, grad schools in the early seventies and jogging tracks in the late seventies, the Baby Boom children are coming to city halls, state houses and Capitol Hill. In his latest book, Changing of the *uard: Power and Leadership in America, Broder profiles the top contenders to be leaders of the new era, the best and the brightest of the generation of McGeorge Bundy...
...while 20,000 have disappeared since the government started its war on terror, no Spanish-speaking newspaper reports the news. Cox is frustrated by the trend, but empathetic. "If you take a stand about disappearances, you immediately become associated with the terrorists themselves, you become a suspect person. Many people just couldn't take that stand, even though they probably had the principle and were opposed to what was going on," Cox explains. But he continues, "Rather worse were the people who made a point of not knowing what was going on. The majority of the newspapers didn't want...
There is an interesting trend in the mood of the electorate. The constituency that has begun to catch on to the Unity Compaign is the very constituency that can elect him. No longer the darling of the academic community, Anderson has maintained his standing in the pools. The support base has shifted toward a more representative group of the American electorate...