Word: trended
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...goal of “connection, communication, and community,” Saheed said. Cambridge schools have however seen significant increases in student tobacco use from 38 incidents in the 2004-2005 school year to 105 the following year, the subcommittee reported. The committee attributed this trend to stricter infraction reporting on campus. There was also a dramatic increase in the number of students cutting class, a perennial problem at CRLS, which committee members said was due to glitches in a new online attendance system. Chief Operating Officer James Maloney stressed the importance of the high school?...
...campus with 6,000 preppy cause-whores who choose their issues by matching their rubber wristbands to their candy-ass outfits. Can’t find something to go with those boat shoes? How about colon-cancer brown, you dickface? Look, activism shouldn’t be a fashion trend. You shouldn’t wear your politics on your sleeve...especially when your shirt was made in a sweatshop. And you shouldn’t wear your politics on your pants either, because real activists don’t wear pants. They know that clothing is just an outmoded...
...Making it their own, in fact, is the newest trend catching on among U.S. television studios trying to find new ways to push their programming in foreign markets. From local music tie-ins like Larage's to new versions of American hits produced overseas with local casts, studios are thinking globally but acting locally...
...bonanza for studios, which count on sales to international markets to recoup the high cost of producing episodic television at home. In the 1990s Sony Television International pioneered reversioning with local productions of hits such as Married With Children and The Nanny as a way to counter a trend of scheduling U.S. shows in undesirable time slots far away from primetime. Today, Sony is expanding its productions throughout the world in markets as culturally different as Russia and China. "We want to provide a full array of product as each programmer looks for solutions in a very competitive marketplace," says...
There are various explanations for this trend, from the skill of evangelicals in marketing religion to the charisma of their leaders. But their success also points to a hunger for the product they are selling, a hunger that goes beyond any particular issue or cause. Each day, it seems, thousands of Americans are going about their daily rounds - dropping off the kids at school, driving to the office, flying to a business meeting, shopping at the mall, trying to stay on their diets - and coming to the realization that something is missing. They are deciding that their work, their possessions...