On top of the red line a hand-drawn narrow black line shows the general trend.
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.
The general trend was for tax rates to decline during this period.
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As you can see that value has been rising: sure , there are wobbles around recessions but the general trend is still upwards.
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.
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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While the general trend has been for supermarkets to relocate to out-of-town locations, Tesco Kensington - on an urban site - was one of the first supermarket developments that included low-cost housing.
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.
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.
As you should be able to see pretty clearly, while there have been some fluctuations the general trend since the start of the Obama administration has been an unmistakable improvement in Russian attitudes towards the United States.
That is in line with the general trend of Mr Putin's federalism, which has been to put more of the burden for services on to the regions while concentrating more power and supervision at the federal level.
But the general trend has been downwards.
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These attempts buck the more general trend in the app-o-verse of insulating users from any direct contact with their own data or any sense of how much control they could actually exert upon it, given the slightest effort.
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But Mr Lindsay said the emphasis placed on erosion by the developer was unjustified, because some 67% of peat in the area surveyed is either stable or recovering: "The current general trend is... towards wetter more actively-growing bog, " he said.
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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.
Several factors have fed this growth, apart from the general demographic trend in favour of the southern and western states.
"The general liquidity trend does seem to be in the right direction, " says Carlton Poon, a strategist at Hong Kong investment firm World Sec.
Looking even further into the future, the general regulatory trend is to separate physical networks from the services offered over them, as in telecoms and electricity.
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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.
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