Word: trended
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...companies that most dramatically bucked the trend were Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase. The latter's success got the most attention because its CEO, Jamie Dimon, was once in line to succeed Sandy Weill at Citigroup. According to Monica Langley's book Tearing Down the Walls, Dimon, a notoriously tough manager, got the boot after losing his temper with a fellow executive who had been rude to a colleague's wife at a 1998 corporate retreat. Prince, Weill's legal adviser, inherited the top job in his place...
...individual sports like archery, snowboarding and kayaking have seen steep increases in recent years. After all, why hang out in the outfield waiting for a ball to head your way when you can be the star player in your very own craft? "It's really part of this greater trend of people wanting to self-express themselves," says Mark J. Penn, author of Microtrends...
Since the Stone Age, tattooing has been seen as a spiritual ritual, used to mark a right of passage. During the Civil War, getting a flag emblazoned on the arm emerged as a patriotic symbol for soldiers. But in the past few years, the garish body-art trend has taken on an increasingly negative connotation as it has become a signifying mark of street gangs and prison inmates...
...apocalyptic predictions of doom. Gray’s entertaining but flawed argument posits that the common theme of early Christian believers, Enlightenment thinkers, and modern politicians is a faulty belief in society’s continual progress and its evolution toward a new world without ills or faults. This trend, Gray claims, is both utopian and apocalyptic. Gray traces the origin of utopian ideals to Jesus’ apocalyptic anticipation of a new kingdom where all evil is eliminated. Gray convincingly asserts that early Christianity was founded upon efforts to make up for Jesus’ failure to fulfill...
...York Times sliced itself on the cutting edge of journalism last year with an exposé on a certain raunchy “underground” trend. Wait for it, guys: Sometimes? On Halloween? Girls like to get really wasted and dress like prostitutes at a themed bordello. It ranks up there on the “duh” scale with this summer’s piece on emoticons: I mean, it just feels like an American tradition to take it all off for Halloween. I’m pretty sure women in the Victorian era took a break...