Word: trending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...oomph for the expansion, is starting to falter. Auto sales have stalled dramatically, contributing to a drop in total retail sales of 0.4% last month and 0.1% in May, the first back-to-back monthly declines since September and October of 1986. Industry is showing the same trend. U.S. factories operated at 83.5% of capacity in June, down from a high of 84.3% in January, a strong indicator that the economy has passed the peak in its current growth cycle...
...draped shape can be traced to those ubiquitous trend setters, the baby boomers. The generation that grew up in the let-it-all-hang-out '60s has found that by age 35 or 40, it may be time to start holding some of it in. Sales of women's swimwear have fallen in recent years, and the aging of the population is probably one reason. "Women were complaining that they couldn't find appropriate bathing suits," says Ruth Rubinstein of New York City's Fashion Institute of Technology. "Most were made for the very young who had perfect bodies." Asserts...
Although the national differences have not been adequately explained, some researchers see American suicides as being more heavily influenced than in the past by drugs and alcohol, which lead to more spur-of-the-moment self-killing. One recent trend in the U.S. has been a sharp increase in suicides among people under 24. Although some of the older victims in TIME's survey seemed to plan their deaths -- leaving wills or notes about their illnesses, for example -- many of the younger ones acted after arguments. Girls shot themselves in front of their boyfriends, husbands killed themselves after their wives...
...Time directors reiterated their plan to go ahead with an acquisition of Warner Communications for as much as $14 billion in cash and securities. Investors who expected the new Paramount bid to run up the price of Time stock were also disappointed. The company's shares, following the trend in the rest of the market, declined to 155 1/4 at week's end (from a high of 182 3/4 less than three weeks earlier) as speculators began to hedge their bets...
Bhutto is an example of that trend. Although she had a privileged childhood, she spent much of a decade in prison and exile. She suffered through the overthrow, imprisonment and execution of her father Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto at the hands of General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, who ruled Pakistan from 1977 until his death in an airplane crash last year. Three months later, Bhutto became Prime Minister after waging a fiery political campaign that led hundreds of thousands of her supporters into the streets...