Word: trend
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Nastiest Campus Trend Even with incidents of racism and anti-Semitism on the rise, date rape stood out as the greatest blight on academe. A study showed that 1 in 9 female college students had been raped; 80% of them knew their attacker...
...synching is another form of hypocrisy, and the revelations about the pop group Milli Vanilli seemed to be merely part of a trend. Lip-synching, in fact, is a new American art form. Herewith, the Leading Lip Synchers...
...Ebraheem's assessment is common. Across the ideological spectrum -- from those who regularly opposed the ruling elite's every move to some of the elite's most prominent members -- the echo startles. "Ours was a culture of dependency," says Tareq al-Suwaidan, a leader of the opposition Islamic Trend movement. "We were the pampered product of an affluent society taken to the nth degree," says Minister of Planning Sulaiman Mutawa. "Everywhere," remarks Ali Jaber al-Sabah, a KPC managing director, "there was the spirit of ba'dain, of 'tomorrow.' Any real change was put off. 'Why bother?' people would...
...trend is a natural, especially for the sons and daughters of thirty- and fortysomething parents raised during the activist 1960s. "Environmentalism is youthful now in the way that feminism was in the late '60s," writes Rosalind Coward in the British magazine New Statesman & Society. "It is the dominant political concern among the young, the main place where perceived discontents are articulated...
...budget-busting Persian Gulf crisis has accelerated a growing trend at the three networks: while news shows are proliferating, day-to-day reportage is shrinking...