Word: trending
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...think this [decline] is the current trend," said Jellis. The reason why so few students run for the positions, she said, might be that "they have to decide, after getting the marshal letter in the registration packet, very quickly whether...
...Poppers' good sense was to get rock-solid data. Their genius was to see and understand the grim trend. Their audacity was to propose a solution and give it a bumper-sticker name: Buffalo Commons. Their good fortune was to be near New York City, which still tingles from the memories of its rich sons, like Theodore Roosevelt, sent west a century ago for thrills and toughening. The national media reveled in an honest-to-goodness cowboy story...
...1970s produced a few sprouts of freedom. Women appeared on TV for the first time, and educational opportunities for them were expanded. But the overthrow of the Westernizing Shah of Iran by the Ayatullah Khomeini's followers in 1979 froze the budding trend toward liberalization. Later that year, the royal family was shocked when 250 armed religious extremists occupied the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Their defeat took two weeks and cost 229 lives. Suddenly the regime became more devout. Executions were stepped up. And the mutawa, the religious police, gained greater influence. Its members patrol the streets carrying slender sticks...
Worse yet, the phenomenon is all too typical. The academic isolation of first-year students is part of a larger Harvard trend of exclusion and second-class citizenship of its newest members. By limiting first-year students to the intellectual airiness of big Core classes and learning-by-assembly line introductory department courses, Harvard immediately alienates students from academic curiousity...
...most basic dramatic rules -- it was too murky, too slow moving, too coy about solving its mystery -- yet it attracted a fanatically devoted audience. Viewers, it seemed, were a lot more willing to sample unusual, challenging fare than anyone had expected. Just as All in the Family launched a trend toward taboo-breaking, socially relevant sitcoms and Roots ushered in the age of the mini-series, Twin Peaks was supposed to augur a new era of more adventurous, risk-taking network fare...