Word: trended
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...based on data from investment tracker Morningstar, 58 faith-based mutual funds have formed since 2001, bringing the running total to 142. And faith-based investors' tactics have become much more aggressive: they no longer just shun certain industries, such as tobacco, gambling or weapons manufacturing. Mirroring a greater trend in socially responsible investing, they are now buying stocks and leveraging pressure from the inside to promote their agendas. For instance, Mennonite Mutual Aid funds, which wants companies to be proactive in curbing HIV and AIDS, helped persuade Ford Motor Co. to report how the disease is affecting its global...
Unlike with tenure offers, there has not been a downward trend in the number of non-tenure offers made to women since Summers took office...
...increase comes during a year in which professors publicly questioned Summers’ commitment to gender diversity, not only because of the downward trend in tenure offers made to women, but also in response to the president’s controversial January remarks on women in science...
...surprising number of other U.S. cities have come to the same conclusion, reversing the trend that created thousands of middle schools in the 1970s and '80s. Cincinnati and Cleveland, Ohio; Minneapolis, Minn.; Philadelphia; Memphis, Tenn.; and Baltimore, Md., are in various stages of reconfiguring their schools away from the middle school model and toward K-8s. Some suburban districts, including the wealthy Capistrano School District in Orange County, Calif., are also making the switch...
Some teens are sticking with the trucker-cap trend, which is in its death throes with adults not named Ashton...