Word: trended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...race is on. And according to candidates? own reporting to the Federal Election Commission for the first six months of the year (and remember, these six months are the first of these guys? terms; no wonder so little legislation gets passed) the totals are already in the stratosphere. The trend is most striking among the vulnerable. This time in 1997, Democratic freshmen had an average of $74,000 in the bank at the end of their first six months of fund-raising; now that number is $206,000. Republican freshmen, likewise, had banked an average of $109,000; this year...
...tempting to write off this trend as a fad born of an economy that doesn't know when to quit, abetted by companies with more money than they know how to spend. But unusual offsites may be tapping into an economic shift that is more lasting than the bull market--the need for "soft" (interpersonal) skills in a quick-moving, unstructured service economy in which advantages are momentary and a slight shift in the business model can mean either big bucks or doom. "Because of all the complexity and chaos that we face in this era, we have to look...
...people day trade. But the number is way up from a few years ago, when this bull market kicked into high gear and the Internet began making it easy and cheap to buy and sell stocks. Barton Biggs, an analyst at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, confirms and bemoans the trend in biting missives to clients about his plumber, who is so busy trading he won't come to fix a leaking pipe. I've written about the guy behind the deli counter leafing through Barron's for that day's stock trade. It's epidemic, and it's alarming...
...Once, rival computer game companies strove mightily against each other, slaving until dawn to produce smarter, flashier, and above all faster software from scratch, every time they wrote a game. It was as if Hollywood were reinventing the movie camera every time it made a movie. Now a new trend is sweeping the games industry: instead of writing the software that creates their game world, game designers can buy the code off the rack, prefabricated...
...also hired noted journalists and essayists to write long, earnest pieces, like a recent report on the environmental legacy of the pork industry. Even the magazine's political writing, however, has tended to emphasize personality over issues. While George may have been correct in identifying politicians as celebrities, that trend was hardly a blessing for political discourse...