Word: trended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This turnabout points up a broad trend in the market. Dare I say it? New-economy firms are out of favor. Since March 31, the smokestack-vintage Dow Jones industrial average has risen 1,000 points, while the tech-laden nasdaq has gone flatter than steel slab. In that period aluminum maker Alcoa rose a shiny 55% and joined heavy industrials such as 3M and Phelps-Dodge in posting heady gains. Tech wonders, including Cisco, Microsoft and Intel, floundered...
...pieces together onscreen to create a Bavarian castle or Victorian mansion, then explore the finished building in 3-D. Austin Powers goes head-to-head with Dr. Evil in Berkeley Systems' newest addition to the cheeky You Don't Know Jack trivia series. And in keeping with the latest trend in the toy business--coupling hardware with software--Mattel will show its Me2Cam, a digital camera that drops your live image into a (G-rated) virtual-reality game. Even the new Star Wars titles steer clear of the combat-heavy themes of previous releases. One is more of an adventure...
...looked at 25 tables--16 mixed and nine all-male--for five minutes each. While there is a trend that males improve their manners in mixed company, it's not statistically significant. People are slobs for the most part," Fisher says...
...living in the age of the multi-media conglomerates. Our newspapers, our TV stations, our movie studios, our books are usually all controlled, in one way or another, by the same few multimedia enterprises. Perhaps it would be a stretch to say that Star Wars is responsible for this trend, the centralization of pop culture. But it at least laid the foundation for this modern phenomena by inaugurating a perhaps more important process: the unification of pop culture...
...simply that they all began to work off of the same themes. What theme might that be? Well, whatever theme happened to be selling at the moment. Think of Madonna's ventures into various pop culture venues, from music to movies to books and back. Think of the recent trend of turning video games (such as Wing Commander) into movies, or releasing CDs of the music to certain games. Think of all the old TV shows now being turned into films. Think of Will Smith...