Word: trended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sincerely hope it's not the beginning of a new trend," Illingworth said...
...Though the island and its economy will have escaped relatively unscathed, the bad news is that traumatic earthquakes may become something of a trend in Taiwan ? the island sits atop the fault line where the Philippine tectonic plate is grinding into the Eurasian plate. But in what is almost certainly an unintentional reflection of its geopolitical position, Taiwan applies three sets of building codes: its own, mainland China's and California...
...Kathie Lee makes good on that threat by tearing up her contract with yet another sweatshop, will her actions have an impact in the grand scheme of workers? rights? Eventually, says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl. "There?s an inexorable trend toward better working conditions in factories abroad. It?s part and parcel of the globalization process." These days, Baumohl explains, when a U.S.-based company sends manufacturing contracts abroad, it is expected, and sometimes required, to pay a reasonable wage for services rendered. In countries highly dependent on foreign contracts, an increase in manufacturing-job salaries means...
...change was precipitated not by a visible decline in the quality of House life but by the increasing prevalence of large blocking groups--a trend that provides strong evidence that students prefer, when given the choice, to block with a large number of people. Normally, such preferences should be respected. The only reason to break up blocking groups would be if they had adverse effects on House community. Yet such effects have not been demonstrated so convincingly that the administration should disregard the preferences students have already expressed...
YOUR2CENTS.COM Amazon.com started the trend, and now consumer reviews are expanding. Epinions.com covers everything from fly-fishing to cell phones, and pays reviewers up to 3[cents] each time their reviews are read. The site lets members rate reviewers' trustworthiness, a la eBay, and lists professional reviews below customer ones. BizRate.com compiles customer feedback on e-commerce sites. These online reviews will be published in Consumer Reports beginning in November...