Word: trended
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...women in these fields grew by 7 percent since 2003, while awards to men remained flat. Jaquelina C. Falkenheim, a co-author of the report, said in an interview yesterday that the “numbers for women have been going up—this is a new time trend that should be watched.” At Harvard, the picture is more mixed. Asian women outnumbered men at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences—the unit of Harvard that grants Ph.D.s—and at the schools of dentistry, design, education, government, law, medicine...
...City, Steve & Barry's, Linens 'n Things and Mervyns going under. Of those four, only Circuit City is attempting to restructure its business, closing 155 stores by the end of the year in an effort to emerge as a leaner operation. The other three plan to liquidate altogether, a trend that is on the rise as a result of the lack of potential buyers for troubled assets and a tightening of credit offerings by banks. "The days of restructuring are gone," says Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates Inc., a national retail-consulting and investment-banking firm. "No one will...
...Hopes for upscale retailers are fading fast. The high-end customer is cutting back spending 9 percentage points more than the overall consumer, according to America's Research Group. One victim of the trend: Saks Fifth Avenue, which saw a devastating 16.6% sales plunge in October, coming on the heels of a 10.9% drop in September...
That's certainly good news. Indeed, the best indicator of progress is a declining death rate. But while the falling incidence rate suggests successful efforts at prevention, the real reasons behind the trend are not as clear-cut. Decreasing cancer rates may reflect a real reduction in cancer; they may also be a result of more frequent and effective screening, which can catch and cure pre-cancer, or they may reflect less frequent use of screens overall...
According to Bevers, California saw a decline in lung-cancer incidence even among women, a reversal of the overall trend in lung-cancer rates, which have been steadily increasing in women since 1975. Researchers say the difference in lung-cancer rates between the sexes - incidence has been dropping in men since 1991 - may owe in part to the fact that women in the U.S. began smoking decades later than...