Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story of Proudfit's fledgling company highlights a trend in HSA management, students and College officials say. The agency, which celebrated its 30th birthday this fall, is evolving into a large and steady employer of undergraduates by limiting student risk-taking, they...
...America, where monopoly ownership has made many newspapers fair, bland and unadventuresome, Rupert Murdoch, the invading Australian press lord, set out to buck the trend. He bought the liberal tabloid New York Post and turned it into a paper conservative and vindictive in its politics and sensational in its news coverage. Many of his fellow editors and publishers consider him an embarrassment to their craft and a barracuda as well; the lack of respect is mutual ("Most American papers," says Murdoch, "do a few outstanding things, then coast"). Suddenly, however, Murdoch's bold reinvention of cynical, rowdy journalism...
...trend is visible around the country. In 1970 only 10.8% of students enrolled in U.S. Catholic parochial schools were minorities; today they constitute 21.8%. The majority of the black students (64%) are not Catholic, but that does not seem to deter their parents. "I tell non-Catholic parents of incoming students that religion is an integral part of the school's curriculum," says Monsignor Thomas McCormack, principal of Cardinal Hayes. "They are pleased. That is one of the reasons they come...
More than 50% of all furs are now bought by women under 30 (vs. about 25% ; ten years ago), a trend that retailers are doing everything they can to encourage. Fur sales have gone up roughly 10% annually since 1977, reaching an all-time high of almost $2 billion last year -- this despite the October stock-market crash that many feared would hurt luxury sales. But then, a fur is no longer a luxury, notes Sandra Blye of the American Fur Industry association. "It's a life-style item...
FROM THIS burgeoning intellectual advancement, an interesting trend developed. Probably because of the deep emotional scars left over from the great dinosoar sinkage, certain subjects uniformly elicit, dare I say, insane effects on would-be writers. For instance, if someone today would like to express--in writing-admiration for a painting, they all of a sudden will find themselves scribbling...