Word: trended
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What's the worst fashion trend you've ever seen? -Kay Soriano, MANILAWell, sandals with socks are certainly up there. Generally speaking, it's footwear trends. I mean, the Croc-it looks like a plastic hoof. How can you take that seriously? I know it's comfortable; I understand that. But if you want to dress to feel as though you never...
Forget peanuts or pork scratchings. Bars these days are competing for the drinker's dollar with increasingly imaginative food - and the global trend toward smokeless venues is creating pleasant environments in which to savor it. In Singapore, a cluster of gastrobars, as they're called, are becoming dining destinations in their own right, dishing out the likes of o-toro sashimi and Boston lobster to famished partygoers...
...Germany itself, some strongly disagree. At the German Engineering Federation, an association of about 3,000 German machinery firms, economist Olaf Wortmann acknowledges that there has been "a change of tempo," but he insists that the upward trend is continuing. The Federation tracks the order inflow of its members, and while that number fell 12% in May, it jumped a spectacular 35% in April. "There are always monthly fluctuations," says Wortmann. For the first six months of 2008, the industry is still expecting growth of at least 5%. One heartening factor: the engineering firms' factories continue...
...many of the forces that have pushed candidates to speed up their choices don't apply to Obama. If the trend toward earlier and earlier announcements makes sense for anyone this year, it's Republican Senator John McCain...
...that his government may consider a timetable for a U.S. withdrawal of forces. "Today, we are looking at the necessity of terminating the foreign presence on Iraqi lands and restoring full sovereignty," al-Maliki said during a meeting with several Arab ambassadors in the United Arab Emirates. "The current trend is to reach an agreement on a memorandum of understanding either of the departure of the forces or a memorandum of understanding to put a timetable on their withdrawal." The announcement raised eyebrows among security planners and analysts around the world. Was it posturing? Or was al-Maliki diverging from...