Brand managers convinced themselves that they were following social trends as faithful servants of consumer need.
We see political uprisings, market crashes, and a never ending array of social trends.
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Helen Li, a fashion designer in Shanghai, launched a collection to reflect social trends.
It seems that changing social trends also sometimes lie behind the fall in property crime.
Social trends deeper and less visible to us may appear as future historians analyze what went on.
Bollywood movies, generally a good barometer of social trends, are increasingly depicting cohabiting couples in a favorable light.
Reading books keep you up to date in your industry and social trends.
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John Curtice, of the Centre for Research into Elections and Social Trends, has been studying agricultural politics for The Economist.
Outside the best-seller lists, authors still managed to illuminate and reflect on the social trends and political upheavals of the decade.
These social trends may be just as significant for the automobile industry as the original shift to horseless carriages a century ago.
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The survey was financed by the Economic and Social Research Council and undertaken by the ESRC Centre for Research into Elections and Social Trends (CREST).
Anti-Semitism is one of the hardest hatreds to pin down because it is constantly updating itself to suit the political and social trends of the day.
And he plans to launch a quarterly magazine in Europe filled with stories and pictures evoking the Red Bull world: music, extreme sports, night life, social trends.
The Economist's May 15th issue will include our annual analysis of the results, prepared by Professor John Curtice of the Centre for Research into Elections and Social Trends.
The Scottish Chambers of Commerce said it firmly believed the plans were "misguided" and would damage the capacity of town centres to adapt to changing economic and social trends.
So does devoting column inches to bogus social trends.
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According to Fizziology, a company which analyzes social trends, 26% of the positive conversation about the movie is coming from men and 23% of those men are most excited about the soundtrack.
The 2010 Pew Research Center study on social trends reported that the millennials are to be one of the most educated generations in history and also accountable for half of the employees in the world.
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She identified two big social trends that have led to a greater reliance on online dating: an aging population, and women around the world entering the workforce, marrying later, divorcing more, moving from place to place.
Unfortunately, if present political, economic and social trends continue south of our border, there will likely be many more immigrants coming here unlawfully in search of better lives, and to flee increasingly hard ones in their own countries.
Russia, of course, still has a seemingly endless series of problems, but the reduction in its abortion rate is yet another reminder that, even in an environment of political stagnation, many social trends are moving in the right direction.
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To allow for this, The Economist asked John Curtice, of the Centre for Research into Elections and Social Trends, to calculate how much each party's support has risen or fallen at each by-election compared with the May 1995 round of elections.
Jeff Jacoby, columnist for The Boston Globe, and Salil Tripathi, who grew up in India but now lives in London and writes on economics, literature and social trends for major publications around the world, were first and second place runner-ups, respectively.
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Companies such as Motif Investing, which encourages clients to make investments based on social trends and themes, or Betterment, which keeps clients on track with meeting their goals, are reaching out to women by focusing on their personal interests and long-term goals.
In its recently published annual survey of social trends, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences said (strangely inconsistently with the tenor of allegations made by General Xiong and other officials) that terrorism had not been a serious problem in the past few years.
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Prdaily.com provides the latest news in the communications industry and keeps me up to date with social media trends.
The question is: How can a deeper understanding of social media trends and content help us do our jobs better?
Over the course of three days, 101 went through a series of sessions with the Vatican, covering the new media landscape, social media trends among young people, the changing nature of institutional communications and crisis management PR.
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