Your son used to tell you about everything, from neighborhood-kid battles to the latest music fads.
Throughout the time that these advancements have been happening, there have been what is called fads.
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Because of Jim's willingness to see beyond the surface, FORBES was rarely taken in by fads.
These schools can devise curriculums to focus on basics rather than on passing fads.
Sylvester Graham (of Graham cracker fame) was the pioneer of American food fads.
The second type of business myths are known as management fads.
They seek to engineer society according to the latest progressive fads.
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He embraced that quaint otherness, his imperviousness to fashion or fads.
The hyper-partisan American press rarely foregoes the sophistry of progressive fads.
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Instead, the near perfect separation between research and teaching causes their courses to largely rely on dangerously simplified generalizations of popular insights, at a time that the corporate pitfalls that rocked our economies over the recent past epitomize a clear need for more sound management in favor of popular fads.
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"So they know better, " says Mr. Balcerowicz, about the latest fads in central banking.
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Despite centuries of supposed weight-loss remedies from anti-obesity soaps, crash diets based on vinegar to even amphetamines, fads have failed.
The results of such a transfer might even convince public schools to abandon their passionate pursuit of educational fads and fancies.
This year's trends are marked by a hybrid appreciation for fads of other eras.
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In this competitive environment, user preferences shift fast and fads fade even faster.
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Rania Bossonis, Bellydance's Greek aerobics instructor, contends that ethnic exercise is more of a social elixir than the fads kickboxing and aerobics.
For that is the way of the mining industry, terribly subject to fads and booms and busts.
They tend to capitalize on investing fads (recently, dot.coms), and what's hot today might not be hot tomorrow.
The ad, watched 4.3 million times on YouTube since its release Wednesday, highlights the fads that defined the 1990s childhood for many.
Haighton-Williams believes that the bigger U.S. market may be less concerned with fads, and Americans may be more comfortable maintaining online relationships than are Europeans.
Let's just blame corporate culture, and hope that like other fads it will swiftly pahss away.
They exploited cultural trends and fads, and buried cultural trends and fads with the shoddy facts of themselves.
There have been a number of fads in trying to address this problem.
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The history of diet supplements is rife with fads that fizzled or proved dangerous to health.
He also knew that social fads cause smart people to do stupid things.
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