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The trend is your friend.
The trend of public opinion is against corporal punishment.
News and current affairs
After all, more than 20 years of unusually sluggish trend growth in Japanese output has sharply reduced its incremental impact on the broader global economy.
Haldane bases his analysis on the trend in the Gross Value Added (GVA) of the financial sector.
Gradually, however, the quest for it has become a global trend, one that continues to conquer new territories, just as blue jeans once did.
That turned out to be wrong, as a painful process of balance-sheet deleveraging - reflecting excessive private-sector debt, and then its carryover to the public sector - implies that the recovery will remain, at best, below-trend for many years to come.
The US under Obama has increasingly ceded ground to China, a trend that admittedly began when the Bush administration became preoccupied with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Moreover, commercial real estate is beginning to follow the downward trend in residential real estate.
This trend is not hard to understand.
It slowed after the 1940's, but it was only around 1990 that an entirely new trend could be observed - convergence between average incomes in the group of rich countries and the rest of the world.
This has been a revolutionary change, but will this 20-year-old trend continue?
Nevertheless, it remains to be seen whether healthcare pressures will ultimately cause the current trend towards free (and freer) market capitalism to reverse, with a very large chunk of the economy reverting to a more socialist system.
Most sober analysts have long been projecting a steady trend decline in the dollar against the currencies of America's trading partners, especially in Asia and emerging markets.
But it would be more accurate to say that there is global investment shortfall, with investment trending downwards despite the upward trend in global growth.
The financial crisis may slow this trend.
Indeed, the trend for strong hurricanes around the Philippines has declined since 1951.
In 2006 alone, China added about 93,000 megawatts of coal- fired electricity generating capacity, and this trend is expected to continue as the country tries to meet its huge energy needs.
Nowhere is this trend more damaging than in today's mercantile approach to art.
As Gordon notes, there have been long-lasting productivity dividends associated with urbanization - a trend that could continue for at least another decade in China.
By supporting Islamist rulers, the US is contributing to a trend evident from the Maghreb to the badlands of Afghanistan and Pakistan - Muslims killing Muslims.
According to the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Index, the US slipped to fifth place in 2011-2012, from fourth place the previous year, continuing a general downward trend evident since 2005.
Workers' wages, adjusted for inflation, fell in 2007, continuing a trend throughout this decade.
Reversing this trend is not only in America's interest, but also in the world's interest.
One such trend is Europeans' growing skepticism toward integration, exemplified in May's European Parliament election.
Unlike prices for coal, which is abundant and dispersed geographically, gas prices are subject to significant volatility, and the long-term trend in the face of fossil fuel depletion is uncertain.
Only openness and accountability can reverse this trend.
It will take years for the world economy to return to trend, in particular as the growth outlook is not very promising and unemployment continues to rise in the US and Europe.
Two face-to-face surveys of more than 2,500 Iranian adults, conducted in 2000 and 2005, clearly show the trend.
Similarly, on a number of questions concerning gender equality - including political leadership, equal access to higher education, and wifely obedience - the numbers continued a downward trend.
Other regional comparisons further reinforce that trend.