Word: trended
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...though they may be, constitute variations on the themes that extend throughout the collection. The sense is that, while Phillips is addressing some of the less attractive aspects of life, ultimately the world through his eyes is beautiful.“Speak Low” follows Phillips’ trend of attention to punctuation. While certain poems, such as “The Moonflowers,” have a frustrating number of commas, throughout “Speak Low” Phillips widely employs the dash and the question mark, both of which make his thoughts easier to follow.Phillips...
Martinelli is bucking a leftward trend in Central America - a region that, despite its signing of a free-trade pact with the U.S. a few years ago, has since seen leftist Presidents take power in Nicaragua and El Salvador and more centrist governments like those in Honduras and Costa Rica join energy alliances with left-wing Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. "I think this shows that, at least in countries where the democratic rules of the game are accepted, more right-of-center politicians like [President Alvaro] Uribe in Colombia or [President Felipe] Calderón in Mexico...
...surprisingly, the already battered travel industry is eager to capitalize on the trend. Carroll Rheem, director of research at PhoCusWright, a consulting firm in Sherman, Conn., that follows the travel sector, says pink-slip trips are particularly common among those who receive sizable severance packages - i.e., the lawyers and Wall Street types who are confident they'll find another job soon enough. ?If they have the time and they have the money, people are stepping back after a lay-off and thinking, 'Hey, why not?" she says...
...mature with you. Yes, the Kindle has an auto-scroll feature, but it’s not going to help the words leap off the page. If anything, they just become flat and confined on the “no-glare” screen.The Kindle is part of a trend that has contributed to the decline of the art of paper over the last twenty years. With the development of the internet, newspapers and magazines have been left gasping on the deck of popular irrelevancy—even the New York Times, the Holiest of Dailies. Letter writing has gone...
...percent in the first quarter of the year—less than the 4.7 percent decline in the fourth quarter of 2008. The index also forecasted declines of 3.1 percent in the second quarter and 2.8 percent in the third quarter of 2009. But despite the encouraging projected trend, economists said that the news was far from positive. “We don’t appear to be in free fall anymore,” said James H. Stock, the chair of Harvard’s economics department, who also helped develop the methodology behind the index a decade...