Word: trended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what will doubtless prove to be a trend, a couple of airy, clever new novels--neither with anything much to say about the year 2000 or whither-Western-civilization or other matters of substance--are set at the edgy moment when the 21st century rumbles into view. A Lover's Almanac, by Maureen Howard (Viking; 270 pages; $24.95), is a funny, grouchy, madly nonlinear love story that commences in Manhattan after a drunken quarrel at a turn-of-the century party. Artie, a free-lance computer wizard, has behaved badly, and Louise, a gifted painter of enigmatic farm scenes...
Other people who fear that Starbucks will begin the trend of bringing big corporations into the area--hiking up prices--have mobilized and formed the Local Flavor League...
Guinier will not add diversity to the HLS faculty. She is, unfortunately, a continuance of the Law School's leftward trend...
From the banker's perspective, the migration of consumers to home banking is an extension of the trend towards automation that has occurred over the last two decades...
Jackson maintains the Homestead Act was in part responsible for this trend of government sponsored racism. The act, passed in 1862, gave millions of acres of land exclusively to white settlers...