While downtowns have faced relative decline since the 1960's, New Jersey, in the vanguard of suburban trends, demonstrates that the "edge cities" may be losing their edge.
Long the vanguard of American trends, California is again leading the nation in an area reflective of these times -- carving out prominent gaps in the social safety net.
cycle, you're not going to say, 'Please just transfer one.' " Even doctors in the vanguard of the trend face resistance from patients like Marie.
So what is the world's biggest listed renewable-power firm, in the vanguard of this trend?The answer, perhaps surprisingly, is RusHydro, a partly state-owned company that owns most of Russia's hydroelectric plants.
In so doing, TED is at the vanguard of a trend in the conference industry, where organizers have begun to exploit assets that in years past evaporated as soon as speakers left the stage.
Walking into the Four Seasons restaurant for lunch on a recent Tuesday, Jim Finn, a senior vice president at Chase Manhattan Bank, suddenly learned what it means to be in the vanguard of a trend: He was the only man there without a tie.
"It's a coming to fruition of a digital design aesthetic, and a way of fabricating, that's been emerging in the last six to seven years," Mr. Speaks said, noting that Vienna had been in the vanguard of the trend.
When Brittany Maynard's parents decided what to call their infant daughter, in 1984, they were in the vanguard of a trend: that year, she was one of just more than seventy-six hundred American girls given that name, almost ten times the total five years earlier.
Ms. Roperti was in the vanguard of a trend that emerged throughout the spring and summer and is likely to be even more visible come fall, as teenage girls and young women head back to school or enter the work force.
