Word: trended
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...reflects a national movement that “uses procedures and products to make cleaning for the health of building occupants, janitors, and the environment a primary concern.” Luke said that though the program is relatively recent at Harvard, the FMO has been monitoring the industry trend toward green cleaning for at least 10 years. “The more changes we can make, the more changes manufacturers will make as well,” Luke said. To celebrate the “green” changes that have already been made on campus, the Enviornmental Action...
Silverman really has been a player in just about every important business trend of the past three decades. He has watched the rise, fall and resurgence of private equity--what used to be called leveraged buyouts, or LBOs--from inside and out. "There are certainly cycles," Silverman said, when I talked to him a few days after Realogy went private. "And in the current iteration of the capital markets, clearly the private-equity guys are sitting in the catbird seat...
...everyone is comfortable with this freewheeling baby feeding. Milk banks, which sell bottled breast milk, already make some people squirm; the idea of physically breast-feeding a child not your own evokes even deeper taboos. Rhonda Shaw, a sociologist who studies shared nursing in New Zealand, where the trend is also up, says many confuse "adult meanings of eroticism with breast feeding ... Sometimes people associate a woman breast-feeding another woman's baby with pedophilia." Even the pro-nursing group La Leche League has concerns about milk sharing because, in addition to helpful immunities and antibodies, viruses can be passed...
...shootings marked the latest step in a long trend of you-witness journalism. The London 7/7 bombings were caught on camera phone; cell-phone calls went live on TV during the Columbine shootings; even the seminal 1970 image of the Kent State shootings was taken by photojournalism student John Filo...
...We’re not going to slam anybody, but we’d rather see a locally owned store,” said Karen M. Kelley, executive director of Cambridge Local First, a group of local business owners that formed a coalition dedicated to reversing the trend of an ever-commercializing Square...