Word: trended
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...reason for the declines is a matter of dispute. Economic growth, better contraception and safe-sex practices probably all contribute to the trend. But a 2004 study by researcher Michael J. New for the conservative Heritage Foundation found that states that have adopted laws regulating abortion experienced a larger decline than those that have not. Reductions are particularly steep, he found, in states that restricted the use of Medicaid funds to pay for poor women's abortions and those that required pre-abortion counseling about fetal development and abortion risks. (Lisa complied with that rule by phone...
Some of Chirac's peers may be smirking at his plight, but perhaps they should take note. For the French President's rock-bottom ratings are an extreme example of a corrosive trend in public opinion that poses just as much of a threat to President George W. Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and their colleagues in dozens of other countries, as well as to the heads of global institutions and corporations from IBM to the International Monetary Fund. As political and business leaders ready themselves for their annual trek to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, they...
...BUCKING THE TREND...
...Straight, Cohen, Moskowitz, Toussaint, and others—a word-of-mouth search found 11 current Harvard seniors who are engaged—do not a trend make. Over the last few decades, people in the United States have started to marry later, according to statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau. The median age at first marriage was 20.8 for women and 23.2 for men in 1970, 23.9 for women and 26.1 for men in 1990, and has increased to 25.3 for women...
...When I realized that this group was not joking I thought about the more serious side to this McCarthy-like red-baiting campaign in that it reflects a broader trend in U.S. society towards what could be called authoritarian populism,” McLaren said. “Jones appears through his website to be auditioning to be the next Karl Rove...