Word: trended
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...women, finding a mate has never been more difficult - they outnumber blokes in the 30-39 age group by 25,000. The differential stalls birth rates and has serious implications for the sustainability of the country's tax regime and generous social welfare system. But before Australians say tough, trend spotter Bernard Salt believes his country could be headed down the same path. "Australia needs to ensure that globalization does not lead to the plundering by others of our youth, our energy, our intellect and our men," he writes in The Big Picture (Hardie Grant Books...
...Diversity at Harvard, Summers’ name was not mentioned. Hammonds gave a historical account of women in the sciences and indicated that although the number of women getting bachelors in the sciences has been increasing since 1966 and even surpassed the number of males in 2001, the trend has not occured at the senior ranks. She also highlighted the struggles that women of color have faced in the sciences. Hammonds suggested that universities should “develop effective ways to encourage women of different backgrounds to continue their work in the sciences...
...When Shi'ite mobs came into a Sunni Arab neighborhood, they came into a mixed neighborhood, Shi'ite families pointed out, "That is a house of a Sunni." This is new and different. It points to a cleavage in society itself. That trend seems to be going in the exact opposite direction to the political direction you want the parties to take. How do you make those two line up? How do you make people come back to their neighborhoods...
...neighbors, and it's the worst kind of war. And this is a neighborhood where civil wars have taken place recently - look at Lebanon, Afghanistan. And in the discussions that we've had with the Iraqi leaders, we have pointed this out to them, that we see a certain trend in terms of polarization and that it needs to be reversed-contained and reversed-because if it leads to civil war, it will be the worst kind of war and everything must be done to avoid that...
JOHNSON: The trend that I find really interesting in all this is the education gap growing between men and women. I don't know exactly what the numbers are, but more girls than boys are graduating from college. So you're going to hit this point where you have this major gap in terms of educational background and thus employability between women and men--women being significantly ahead after all these years of making sure that women get access to the [whole] educational system. There's going to be a very interesting moment when we have to decide...