Word: trended
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...numbers are a one-year blip in a long-term trend, and they are hardly "dramatic." "For youth aged 14-19 the suicide rate increased by 11%, from 7.3 per 100,000 to 8.2 per 100,000." That's less than one extra death in 100,000. And please note that 8.2 per 100,000 is still lower than the rate...
...boomer generation is also bidding. Meyers credits the trend for what he calls "starchitecture" for creating the rush on contemporary design. "If you've seriously been collecting art for 25 years and you've got all the best pieces of the artists you collect, and you're ready to retire, then you're going to build your own personal museum," he explains. And in that "museum," the object you sit on has to be as important as the art on the walls. Meyers estimates that 90% of the people collecting design are contemporary-art collectors. "The art world is eating...
Although it's not his taste, Krakoff points out a growing trend in the market for more organic styles like those of Castle, John Makepeace and John Dickinson. "That organic look is more fashionable now, maybe as a reaction against what was hot last season, you know, the plastic stuff," he says...
MORE THAN MOST PEOPLE, HE understood the appeal of a muscular, whirring engine. Robert Petersen, who in the late 1940s launched what became a $450 million media empire by starting Hot Rod and Motor Trend magazines, spent his career nurturing America's obsession with cars. Among his contributions: the globally acclaimed Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, a structure flanked by huge steel fins. The museum houses 200 cars, including a Model T, various Cadillac coupes and a 1971 DeTomaso Pantera that belonged to Elvis Presley...
...drift of rural families into cities in search of better jobs and improved living conditions is part of a global trend, but in Fiji the country's land-ownership policies have exacerbated the problem. Laws passed in the 1970s obliged non-indigenous farmers to take 30-year leases on the land they worked. As the leases expired, the Government encouraged indigenous Fijian landowners not to renew them, but instead to farm the land themselves. The non-indigenous farmers were given cash payouts to leave, but their workers received nothing...