Word: trended
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...This trend will only accelerate in the coming months, further widening the rift - and that's what terrifies Google. With Apple rumored to be about to enter another potentially huge market - it's allegedly coming out with a tablet computer within the next six months - Google had to step up its game. Android phones weren't enough. Google needed its own operating system that would not only power the new generation of smartbooks and other mobile Internet devices but also keep them on the wide-open Google Web. That's why it announced the Chrome operating system last month...
...group doesn't encourage anyone to lead an unhealthy lifestyle but recognizes that for some people weight loss isn't possible. "We don't encourage people to get fat," Howell says. A 2008 Yale University study suggests weight discrimination is now as prevalent as race or gender discrimination, a trend Howell says is unacceptable. "As a citizen of the U.S., just because I carry more weight on my back doesn't mean I should have any fewer rights than anyone else," she maintains...
...skill like printmaking. Apprenticeships could last several years and would start as early as age 16. In many cases, the apprentice was dependent upon the master for food, clothing and a place to live, though this idea eventually disappeared. As the Industrial Revolution of the 18th century began a trend away from skilled labor toward general factory work, apprenticeships largely died out, replaced by vocational schooling. Apprenticeships in some industries reappeared in the 20th century and are now regulated by trade unions and laws. The National Apprenticeship Act, passed in 1937, led to the establishment of the Bureau of Apprenticeship...
Since France's summer vacation season kicked off in early July, the French press has repeatedly sounded the alarm over the shrinking number of topless women on the nation's beaches. As eagle-eyed reporters have made quite clear, the prevailing trend among sun-loving women these days is to use both pieces of their bikini. Le Monokini, C'est Fini! , shouted Le Parisien in its report from a Mediterranean beach. "Nude Breasts Are Less Trendy" concurred free daily Metro France. "The practice has become common, and therefore less compelling as a fashion," says sociologist Jean-Claude Kaufmann. "When...
...trend is also part of a wider social movement by younger French women who are shunning the less-inhibited habits of previous generations. If burning bras and going topless were the ways French women of the 1970s and '80s demonstrated their freedom, their daughters and grand-daughters seem less comfortable with exposed flesh. "The values of our time are more conservative, traditional and familial," says Kaufmann...