Word: trended
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...short time. Japanese mass media tend to make a sensational issue of minor mismanagement of the government. They neglect to evaluate Abe's international diplomacy and leadership in reforming education and the economy. They mention the Cabinet's falling popularity rating every day, which only contributes to the trend. I would argue two points made in your story. Abe is trying to revise a constitution not because it is pacifist but because it is outdated and impractical. And he revised our fundamental education law not mainly to "make children patriotic." The old law had so much to be improved...
...real threat to the candidates who had until now been established front runners, conservative Nicolas Sarkozy of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) and Socialist Ségolène Royal. A recent poll put Bayrou and Royal in a dead heat for second place. If his rising trend continues, he could beat her in the first round of the elections on April 22. Only the top two finishers will qualify for the second round on May 6, where a few polls even suggest that Bayrou could win. Since the French Revolution, left and right have been locked...
...store that sells basics like tank tops and Capris but also dares to inch up the food chain of craftsmanship (think cashmere sweaters), avoiding the race to the bottom by refusing to woo price-conscious consumers and sell ever cheaper clothes made with ever cheaper labor--a trend driven by discounters like Wal-Mart and Kohl's that has rippled to specialty shops. He has also taken away the fashion-by-engineering ethic that made J. Crew predictably boring...
...peplum fad kept the Italian film industry going until it discovered its next and more lasting trend, the spaghetti Western. Directors and stars simply moved from one genre to the next. Before helming A Fistful of Dollars, which kicked his and Clint Eastwood's career into overdrive, Sergio Leone had made his directing debut with The Colossus of Rhodes...
...distinct tendency to veer towards the phallic in their attempt to inspire house pride. Mather house, for example, last year clothed its troops in a design featuring the blockish Mather Tower in a phallic shape with the witty shibboleth, “Nice Unit,” underneath. This trend is perhaps understandable. As feminist thinker Simone de Beauvoir wrote in 1949, “The individual’s specific transcendence takes concrete form in the penis and it is a source of pride…It is easy to see, then, that the length of the penis...