Word: trended
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...those looking to do the most good, most notably Harvard Law School (HLS) and the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), students often choose the easier, more visible road to immediate monetary success.HLS and the KSG have both taken measures in recent years in an attempt to reverse the trend, but it is not yet clear whether these steps will be enough to stop students from moving away from jobs whose primary appeal is helping society. Indeed, as experience shows, it is difficult to lure students away from the so-called “sell-out” track.STICKING...
...trend has spread: At least 10 U.S. cities have considered or passed some form of ban on the innocent polyethylene bag, from Oakland to Boston, Annapolis to Portland. And, in an effort to seem green, government ministers from England to Australia have promised to wage war on plastic. Reportedly, plastic bags clog up landfills and kill fish; they guzzle oil and energy; they decay far slower than other waste and are difficult to recycle. In fact, the bans are a case of style over substance: Plastic bags are relatively harmless in environmental terms, and where they are a problem...
With a national divorce rate that has hovered between 40 and 50 percent in recent years, the state of marriage in the United States today is abysmal. This trend is especially foreboding for young people—like myself—who one day hope to have happy and healthy relationships with their spouse and maybe even raise normal, well-adjusted children...
...child protection when pornography and violence can be viewed in so many homes through media widely available today?" It remains to be seen which Catholics will find most meaningful: Benedict's groundbreaking but guarded admission or his contextualization of abuse in what he sees as a general U.S. trend toward loose, if legal sexual practices...
...spring runways at Dries Van Noten, Prada and Dolce & Gabbana might evoke a trip to the lush gardens of Giverny or Tahiti. Or they could appear to be the result of a completely different kind of psychedelic trip. But to those in the know?designers, fabric-mill owners and trend spotters?the plethora of prints this season summons something much closer to home: Ratti, the fabric and printmaking house based in Como, Italy...