Word: trended
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...better with the class’ schedule. It was a “good fit with the number of students I have and the type of course I teach,” he wrote in an e-mail. Though Maxwell said he is unsure if there is an increasing trend towards earlier finals, he would support such a move. “It would be much healthier for everyone to have a sensible winter break and a sensible time!” he wrote. —Staff writer Van Le can be reached at vle@fas.harvard.edu...
...chain-management to big customers. TAL Apparel, which makes 1 out of every 7 dress shirts sold in the U.S. at its factories in Asia and North America, nimbly adjusts production for major customers like JCPenney based on weekly sales results. In a practice linked to the "fast fashion" trend, retailers can send orders to TAL each week. TAL then ships out the product in four days or less--emergency orders can be rushed through in a mere four hours. TAL sorts the goods into boxes for shipment to each individual retail store, rather than to a warehouse...
...Thailand's economy is still more open than many of its neighbors'. But in hot investment destinations like Vietnam and China, the trend is toward fewer restrictions, not more. Nor have recent trade figures justified the pleas for protection by Thai exporters, which led to the controversial capital controls. Despite the baht's 15% rise in 2006, Thailand's exports actually climbed 17% last year, to $130 billion. So who loses out? In the short term, mainly foreigners. But given Thailand's dependence on overseas investment, such protectionism may backfire. "The repercussions of these policies will eventually affect Thais...
...fashioned views aren't likely to reverse the new trend, however. Just ask 20-year-olds Nisha Ahuja and Lakshya Singh, Delhi students who have been dating for the past nine months. "India is a democratic country. I have a right to say to her that I love her and she should have a right to tell me that she loves me. Why should anyone tell us we can't?" asks Singh over coffee in a central cafe where the two often meet. "People have become more independent," says Ahuja. "They want to be able to decide things for themselves...
...Shavers and Hill were from very different backgrounds: he a native New Orleanian, she a North Carolina transplant who had lived in Nova Scotia. But their murders broke with the depressingly familiar trend of drug-related violence. And both victims were the type of involved, idealistic people that many feel are key to the city's recovery: Hill and Gailiunas, who has indicated that he will return to Canada, were part of the Food Not Bombs collective that provides meals to the poor, and Shavers successfully fought to establish a music program in one of New Orleans' notoriously underfunded public...