Word: trended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stakes are sky-high for Americans and people around the world in the contest between financial openness and the growing trend toward controls on capital. If more and more countries manipulate their capital flows, currencies and merchandise imports for competitive advantage--as they did on the cusp of the Great Depression--the threat could spread to U.S. jobs. U.S. unemployment has already edged up from 4.5% in August to 4.6% in September, a month which also saw the slowest rate of job creation in nearly three years...
Jazz musicians are also beginning to grapple with the wealth of potential standards written after 1960, an off-and-on trend renewed in earnest a few years ago when vocalist Cassandra Wilson turned the Monkees' Last Train to Clarksville into a torchy, caramelized ballad nearly worthy of Billie Holiday. Herbie Hancock followed with The New Standard, an entire album of rock-era tunes in which he improvised on changes derived from the Beatles, Sade and Kurt Cobain, among others. Joshua Redman's forthcoming Timeless Tales (for Changing Times) (Warner Bros.) covers similar ground, with songs by Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder...
...study found the increase to be even more pronounced at four-year, private institutions, where the cost of tuition has increased by 5 percent in the same time period. But in direct contrast to this national trend, tuition costs at Harvard increased by only 3.5 percent between...
...multi-departmental focus of the center is in line with a nationwide trend towards increased interdisciplinary work. Several similar cross-disciplinary centers have been created on college campuses in recent years...
...staffers of The Current said that is exactly the journalistic trend they are trying to buck. Instead, Loss said, they hope to engage the student community by relating social and political events and issues to Harvard life...