This year's trends are marked by a hybrid appreciation for fads of other eras.
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Your son used to tell you about everything, from neighborhood-kid battles to the latest music fads.
Let's just blame corporate culture, and hope that like other fads it will swiftly pahss away.
"So they know better, " says Mr. Balcerowicz, about the latest fads in central banking.
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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.
The history of diet supplements is rife with fads that fizzled or proved dangerous to health.
These schools can devise curriculums to focus on basics rather than on passing fads.
Diet fads come and go and mostly revolve around changing food intake and exercising patterns.
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"Fads can last three weeks, maybe three months, " says Margaret Whitfield, a toy analyst with Tucker Anthony.
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.
Corporate America, too, periodically gets religion--in the form of workplace fads that inspire revivalist fervor, then fade away.
They exploited cultural trends and fads, and buried cultural trends and fads with the shoddy facts of themselves.
He also knew that social fads cause smart people to do stupid things.
They chase after fads and the most famous brands, apparently oblivious to the vagaries of the changing market environment.
The book world is swayed by fads, too, though at much more sedate pace compared to the clothing business.
In this competitive environment, user preferences shift fast and fads fade even faster.
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There have been a number of fads in trying to address this problem.
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He is fond of management fads, communicating by e-mail and using motivational training.
Sylvester Graham (of Graham cracker fame) was the pioneer of American food fads.
Considering how many fads the game industry has seen, do you still think the future of social gaming is secure?
Customers, products, hard work and development are occasionally desirable since, like all fads, they can be ridden to increase capitalization.
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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.
California has always been the birthplace of fads in America from surf music to clothes and accessories sold on Rodeo Drive.
The results of such a transfer might even convince public schools to abandon their passionate pursuit of educational fads and fancies.
Fads usually attempt to address complex organizational problems simplistically, facilitating superficial implementations so that everyone can feel confident of buying in.
This cult of fun is driven by three of the most popular management fads of the moment: empowerment, engagement and creativity.
Rania Bossonis, Bellydance's Greek aerobics instructor, contends that ethnic exercise is more of a social elixir than the fads kickboxing and aerobics.
Like Hula Hoops and Razor scooters, fads take off like a rocket, peak and fizzle quickly as they pass through large populations.
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