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Example sentences for: fads

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Although the Rules Girl is anything but Everywoman, the world depicted in the book is unfortunately the one in which millions of single men and women live: a corporatized and highly competitive world of office jobs and aerobics classes, personal ads, nose jobs and diets, singles dances, self-help seminars, and spiritual fads.
But once people read about the physical benefits that accrue from writing, I'm sure that writing clinics will spring up in California, land of all good fads, or if the JAMA study is discredited and writing clinics are outlawed, then they will spring up in Mexico.
Fittingly enough, Avis' roots lie in what turned out to be one of the great fads of the century, namely, air travel.
A piece describes the manifold accomplishments of National Institutes of Health Director Harold Varmus, who has won bipartisan support for the research center, focused the NIH on nuts-and-bolts research rather than disease-of-the-week fads, and artfully guided the human genome project.
But it does serve as a nice reminder that not all fads are frauds.