Word: trending
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...antitakeover trend got a big boost last week when the U.S. Supreme Court, in clearing the way for California to challenge the merger of two major supermarket chains, ruled unanimously that states can sue to prevent or undo anticompetitive mergers. "The court decision is a blockbuster," says Robert Litan, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. "There are 50 loose cannons out there, 50 attorneys general who can now stop a merger...
...most striking trend found in Liu's study is the deterioration of the strong tie between sex and marriage. In the past, young girls were forced into arranged marriages shortly after puberty. Now women are forbidden by law, largely as a means of population control, to marry before the age of 20, and men cannot take a bride until they are at least 22. But relatively few are waiting that long to have sex. Fully 86% of those who answered Liu's survey said they approved of premarital sex. Such liberal attitudes often persist after marriage as well. A surprising...
University officials, and many students as well, are fighting to reverse the trend by cracking down on bigots and joining in consciousness-raising efforts. Many freshmen-orientation programs now include seminars and workshops on race relations, ethnic diversity and homophobia. This school year Columbia University organized a mandatory "multicultural sensitivity-training" session for 1,800 new students. "These things may seem kind of Mickey Mouse," says William Damon, chairman of the education department at Brown. "But I'm in favor even of symbolic gestures because it does communicate to young people what the priorities...
Rosovsky's books include Discord in the Pacific: Challenges to the Japanese-American Alliance, Asia's New Giant: How the Japanese Economy Works and Japanese Economic Growth: Trend Acceleration in the Twentieth Century...
When a "movement" becomes a "trend," it usually succumbs to the same fate as any popular fad--burn-out and eventual neglect. Recall Live Aid, the super-mega concert that graced everyone's TV screen five years ago. In the mid-1980s, caring about hunger suddenly became fashionable after some pop stars got together and made a few mushy records on the subject. By the summer of 1985, hunger-mania had reached epic proportions and the Live Aid concert was dubbed the event of the decade...