Word: trended
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Clothing chaos has led many employers to simply give up. The number of companies allowing workers to dress casually every day dropped from 48% in 2004 to 37% in 2007, according to human resources trade group SHRM. And the trend has left corporate America a sartorial mishmash. At opposite ends of the spectrum are Lehman Bros., which has reinstated its daily-suit mandate, and IBM, which has tossed its famously conservative dress code altogether. Last summer the U.S. Commerce Department banned employee flip-flops. This summer Texas A&M University is urging its staff to dress "comfortably" so the school...
Joining a trend among smaller colleges, Wake Forest became one of the first major national universities to stop requiring standardized test scores...
...people in Switzerland. Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), says, "We are seeing more outbreaks that look different, concentrated among intentionally unimmunized people. I hope they are not the beginning of a worse trend...
...just trace amounts still found in some flu vaccines. Yet there's been no effect on autism rates. In the seven years since the cleaned-up vaccines were introduced, new cases of autism continue to climb, reaching a rate of 1 in every 150 8-year-olds today. That trend suggests that other factors, including heightened awareness of the condition and possible genetic anomalies or environmental exposures, are behind the climbing rates. What's more, in the decade since Wakefield's watershed paper, 10 of its 13 authors have retracted their hypothesis, admitting that the study did not produce solid...
...rivals, Russia and China, whose "rulers believe in the virtues of a strong central government and disdain the weaknesses of the democratic system." Kagan notes that "Russian leaders today yearn not for integration with the West but for a return to a special Russian greatness." As for China, its "trend towards regional hegemony is unstoppable" - and "Asia is not the E.U., and China is not Luxembourg." Adding to the unsettling complexity of this situation, writes Kagan, this "club of autocrats" includes a potentially destabilizing junior partner: Iran...