Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard undergraduates have joined a nationwide trend towards matchmaking through news ink, by introducing a publication, which promises safe dating to college students. ClassMates offers students, too scared to test the regular personal columns, a chance to indulge their impulses in a relatively secure environment...
...named the dominant trend in '80s music because they're afraid to: it's disco, and all the critics know it. They know it and fear it. It is the strange uncle who lives in the attic and can't be acknowledged...
...Negro Family: The Case for National Action, that provoked a searing controversy. Using the work of Black Sociologists Kenneth Clark and E. Franklin Frazier, Moynihan contended that the growing number of one-parent families living on welfare was preventing blacks from achieving true equality in American society. If the trend did not stop, he charged, the triumphs of the civil rights movement might be dissipated. The Moynihan report became a lightning rod for ideological fury. Critics faulted the study's methods, but they seemed most upset by the author's use of provocative expressions like a "tangle of pathology...
...corporate fitness trend is cresting at a time when some Government officials have taken pointed aim at businessmen for their inefficient ways. Last November, Deputy Treasury Secretary Richard Darman stirred controversy when he used the terms bloated and corpocracy to describe the U.S. business hierarchy. Darman's epithets rebutted executives who blamed federal tax and budget policies for problems with U.S. competitiveness. Both Darman and other officials, however, acknowledge that Big Business is changing its ways. Robert Ortner, chief economist for the Commerce Department, acclaims the present restructuring efforts of corporate America as "amazing...
Breaking a trend of the past decade, the infant mortality rate in the Boston area increased by 32 percent in 1985, a trend concentrated solely among Black infants, state officials said yesterday...