In fairness to Zuckerberg, he was pointing out a general trend and probably meant no disrespect.
This follows a general trend on the Internet market, where strong established media brands buy up successful Internet upstarts.
Beyond education, notes the Times, there has been a general trend for larger companies to split their operations.
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There is also a general trend towards earlier retirement throughout the GP workforce in common with trends throughout society.
And over the past several years you do see a general trend towards modestly increased fertility and modestly decreased mortality across the region.
But amid the evolution and excitement, a general trend is emerging: online publishers are in a prime position to be profitable in group deals.
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It is heartfelt and sincere expression of disappointment which one should sympathise with, but it is not an accurate comment on a general trend.
Over the past decade, and even since the crash, this has meant a general trend of migration from high-end, unaffordable markets to less expensive regions.
These ultra-Orthodox women, who are now being followed by their IDF veteran husbands, are part of a general trend that has seen women fully integrated in almost every sector of society and the economy.
Will the leaders affirm the kind of guiding principles that President Obama articulated last year at Bali, and will there be a consensus around and a push towards both progress between ASEAN and China on a code of conduct, but also a general trend towards pushing for deescalation.
Cinema admissions have shown a general upward trend since 1982 when cinema admissions stood at 65 million.
Urban land shortages and subsequent higher costs, coupled with a general densification trend, means high rises are sprouting rapidly in even the most sprawling of urban landscapes.
Tragically, both abject dependency and a general collectivist-statist trend have been building in America for most of the past century, after corrosive ideological premises were imported from Europe starting in the 1880s.
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And you may have blips where maybe this month they will go up a little bit and next month they will drop a little bit, but the general trend is for it to go down.
While Zynga may have had a good day on Sunday, the general trend among its total user numbers over the past few months has been downward.
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The threat of using foreign citizens for terrorist purposes is a growing trend, the Israeli Attorney General's Office said in a written response to an inquiry filed by an Israeli human rights group.
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These successes form part of a trend that has seen a general waning of the influence that al-Qaeda and its offshoots have in a country that, until five years ago, housed more than a dozen jihadist training camps.
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Although car sharing is a growing trend, a new partnership between General Motors and RelayRides may just be the tipping point for the industry.
On top of the red line a hand-drawn narrow black line shows the general trend.
Marina Asiandiou, general manager, believes it will be a lasting trend.
So the trend, in general, is up and toward a larger and larger number of cars in the world, all around the world.
The Belgians' rightward trend was matched next-door in tiny Luxembourg, which also had a general election.
This shows in consistently high turnouts in the primaries, a trend Mr Bush's campaign team must hope does not carry over to the general election.
Some critics will suggest that perhaps some of these jobs are due in part to the management style of General Motors, the problems they have had over the years, but this is a growing trend in America, is it not?
"The general liquidity trend does seem to be in the right direction, " says Carlton Poon, a strategist at Hong Kong investment firm World Sec.
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