Word: trended
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...Apart from his fiery rhetoric, what makes Chavez's move seem more jarring is the fact that, until he came to power in 1999, Venezuela had been a trend-bucking oasis for Big Oil. Venezuela did nationalize its oil industry in 1976, but in the 1990s it had steadily reopened its fields to foreign investment - in some cases handing the multinationals deals that even conservative Venezuelans considered too sweet. Chavez has just as steadily, and stridently, reversed that policy, paring down the multinationals' ownership while ratcheting up their taxes and royalties. And because Venezuela is America's fourth-largest foreign...
...directors rather than a raving David O. Russell type. "Yelling is stupid," Zombie says, by way of explanation. Oh, and here's another surprise: Mr. Most Cinematic Human Roadkill Scene Ever (in The Devil's Rejects) doesn't like gratuitous violence. "I didn't want to get into this trend of creative ways to kills people," he says. "I like violence when it has a purpose" (a purpose like revealing character, for instance...
...producer, of course, wants his or her musical pigeonholed as a young-girl show; niche audiences don't make hits. Yet the influx of young theatergoers to shows like Wicked is a trend producers can't afford to ignore. "We've talked about how we lost a generation who didn't think it was cool to go to the theater," says Wicked's Stone. "A lot of us have started to get that audience back. Younger people are coming back to the theater--and yet older people aren't leaving...
...very fact that the negotiations are focused on such details of a mutually acceptable formula for defining what is meant by "suspension" of Iran's activities suggests that the current trend in the nuclear talks is towards compromise, rather than confrontation...
...before the first-base bag, in noticeable pain. After watching Byrne try to walk off the injury, Walsh made the quick move for pinch runner Griff Jenkins. Now, Byrne, junior Tom Stack-Babich and Max Warren and freshman Andrew Prince are all suffering from leg injuries—a trend Walsh attributes to the recent cold weather. Prince started each of the weekend’s four games as the Crimson’s designated hitter, but was clearly slowed as a baserunner. “We’ve got guys that have been playing hurt...