Word: trending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problems. Unlike New York City's Mayor Ed Koch, who blurts out insults to someone nearly every day, the resolutely dull Bradley has said hardly anything memorable in almost 16 years in office. But the mayor is no accident in California politics. Like most public officials in this trend- making state, Bradley is part of a wave of certifiably boring, aggressively bland politicians. How else to account for Governor George Deukmejian, Senators Pete Wilson and Alan Cranston and others too unrecognizable to mention...
While football's Barry Sanders, Timm Rosenbach and Bobby Humpherey and basketball's Jay Edwards are leaving school before graduation to make their riches in the professional ranks, Fernandez reflects a growing trend of high school stars who are taking advantage of NCAA baseball as an alternative to the bus rides of the minor leagues...
Forget those quiet Moscow nights of song. There are not enough evenings in the month now to attend all the theater premieres, art exhibitions, poetry readings, film previews and cultural debates taking place in the Soviet capital. Time has to be set aside for watching trend-setting "musical- information shows" such as View or the monthly video digest Before and After Midnight, or for perusing the thick monthlies like Novy Mir and Znamya, which Soviets affectionately call the "fat journals." If the short-lived liberalization that followed the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953 was known as "the thaw...
...peak of a nationwide trend toward nutrition- and health-consciousness, HUDS has introduced two new items to the dining halls, says Assistant Director of Dining Services Administration Dale M. Hennessey...
Some analysts detected a trend that could influence next year's regional and national elections. Said Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, head of the Allensbach public opinion institute: "This weakening of the big center parties and the strengthening of the fringes is not a short-term phenomenon. This trend will continue...