On top of the red line a hand-drawn narrow black line shows the general trend.
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.
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.
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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Several factors have fed this growth, apart from the general demographic trend in favour of the southern and western states.
The general warming trend -- 13 of the warmest years have occurred in the 15 years since 1997 -- was highlighted by summer sea ice melt in the Arctic.
"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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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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For universal-service funds and for telecoms in general, the trend is clear: phones first, broadband later.
And over the past several years you do see a general trend towards modestly increased fertility and modestly decreased mortality across the region.
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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This follows a general trend on the Internet market, where strong established media brands buy up successful Internet upstarts.
So the trend, in general, is up and toward a larger and larger number of cars in the world, all around the world.
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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Beyond education, notes the Times, there has been a general trend for larger companies to split their operations.
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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.
Jack Welch gave further impetus to the trend when he famously took General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ) to greater profitability by dumping underperforming parts of his company instead of pouring resources into trying to save them.
The business is just too unpredictable for even the players to forecast more than trend and general direction.
There is also a general trend towards earlier retirement throughout the GP workforce in common with trends throughout society.
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.
Donald Trump 's success with The Apprentice set the trend in motion, and this week this wildly popular show has its finale on General Electric 's (nyse: GE - news - people ) NBC network.
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