Word: trended
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...National Association for College Admission Counseling in examining the usefulness of admissions tests such as the SAT. According to Fitzsimmons, the SAT is no longer a good predictor of performance in college. But aside from the question of whether the SAT is an effective predictor, the SAT-optional trend is at least due in part to a favorite claim of social justice types: that the SAT discriminates against students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. For proponents of this claim, such a statement from the venerable Fitzsimmons is an exciting turn. However, there is simply a lack of compelling evidence to suggest...
...just basketball that is threatened. Let’s hope the owners of the NBA teams become aware of this trend and defend against their players’ European migration. Otherwise, only the prestige of the NBA, rather than its players, will continue to keep the world’s greatest game close to home, if at all. Perhaps someday there may be a World Basketball Series, but for now, a good NBA Playoffs is all I really want...
...With a month left, McCain still has time to reverse the recent trend and make election night a nail biter. It was only a few weeks ago, after all, that it was McCain who had soared in national polls and Obama who was dealing with panic in his party. But McCain's campaign is now stuck playing defense. Over the weekend, his running mate, Sarah Palin, held a rally in Nebraska, a traditionally safe Republican state, but one where electoral votes are distributed by congressional district; Obama hopes to steal one such vote in the more liberal Omaha area...
...long vaunted their joint destinies can't work together, it seems all the more difficult to envisage a global response of governments and regulators toward a financial sector that itself cares little for national borders. Certainly Germany's unilateral action didn't help European markets resist a strong downward trend from Asia, and indexes plunged on Monday, with the FTSE 100 in London, the CAC 40 in Paris and the DAX in Frankfurt each falling around 6% as morning trading opened. By midmorning, Iceland had suspended trading altogether in financial shares...
...African development. So why are things changing now? "[As] John Githongo [Kenya's former anticorruption czar] says, 'The democracy genie is out of the bottle,' " notes Hania Farhan, the foundation's director of research. "There will be violent ructions and eruptions, like Kenya or Zimbabwe or Nigeria, but the trend is there, and it is remarkable. Africans want their rights and, increasingly, they are getting them...