Word: trended
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...those straws in the wind and you've got a flying haystack. "We're at a point here," says Kenneth Courtis, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia, "where if this is just a little pop it doesn't mean very much. But if it's the beginning of a trend...
...mental habit of dividing one's attention into many small slices has significant implications for the way young people learn, reason, socialize, do creative work and understand the world. Although such habits may prepare kids for today's frenzied workplace, many cognitive scientists are positively alarmed by the trend. "Kids that are instant messaging while doing homework, playing games online and watching TV, I predict, aren't going to do well in the long run," says Jordan Grafman, chief of the cognitive neuroscience section at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). Decades of research (not to mention...
...common trend among new musicals is a by-the-books run-through of all the dramatic conventions of what audiences expect out of musical theater, and nothing more. You have the standard big dance numbers, the corny dialogue, the old-fashioned tongue-in-cheek Broadway humor. This almost maniacal dedication to what is least likely to surprise, confuse, or offend passes as a celebration of tradition at best; at worst, it becomes a tired, nauseating series of in-jokes. No matter what arguments writers, producers, and directors come up with to stick to such “cult of theater?...
...reason I bring this up is the growing trend of Ivy League graduates filling front-office positions. Last year, newly named Tampa Bay Devil Rays team president Matthew Silverman ’98 joined the Rangers’ Jon Daniels (Cornell), the Red Sox’ Theo Epstein (Yale), and former Dodgers’ GM Paul DePodesta (Harvard) as the fifth former Ivy League graduate to run a major league team. Even the top dog of my team, Mark Shapiro, is a former Princeton Tiger...
...judgment if we get the politics of this right, we get a government of national unity, and if we get sensitive ministries in the hands of people who are unifiers, who are broadly trusted, then I think you will begin to reverse this trend-contain it and to reverse...