Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said in an interview that Bloom's book was part of a larger trend toward blaming higher education for national ills. "America has a peculiar penchant--when people are troubled by the way society is going, they blame education," he said...
Once past thirtysomething and A Year in the Life, TV's family album gets considerably bleaker. Fully assembled nuclear families are scarce on the season's new sitcoms; swinging singles and unattached parents are in. One new twist, however, is a trend to half-hour shows that eschew laugh tracks or live audiences and aim instead for the mixed moods of comedy-drama. The technique does not always work -- witness CBS's Frank's Place, a languid, unfunny variation on Cheers set in a New Orleans Creole restaurant. More promising is The "Slap" Maxwell Story, with Dabney Coleman...
...size of the continental U.S. As the world's ozone layer deteriorates, the sun's radiation could lead to a dramatic increase in skin cancer and cataracts, along with a lowered resistance to infection. It could damage plant life, both directly and as a result of a general warming trend; that warming could lead to a disastrous rise in sea levels...
...smokers have come under fire from all sides, U.S. domestic cigarette sales have been dropping 2% to 3% annually, to 29 billion packs last year. Fewer Americans than ever (55 million, or 26.5% of the adult population) smoke at all. The smokeless cigarette, Reynolds hopes, could help extinguish that trend...
...need another rush to see what the trend is, but I don't expect a huge number of students to pledge" during the additional rush period, Parfomak said...