They focus more on who is influential and why on certain topics and trend this over time.
Stated differently, if Simon was really betting that inflation-adjusted prices of a basket of commodity prices have a significantly negative trend over long periods of time, and Ehrlich was betting that the slope of that line was significantly positive, I think Simon wins the bet.
Decades worth of this trend sort of gradually unfolding over time, but what's really striking about the 2000s is the magnitude of the increase and the pace at which we saw this growth picking up.
Mr Johns said that the important thing was to see if there was a trend for a reduction of incidents over time.
Over time, this trend could lead to improved margins.
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These measure robberies and the rest on a per capita basis, allowing people to know if their community is safer or more dangerous than another one, and whether the trend lines are getting better or worse over time.
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If we have either of those as parents, then no matter which way the trend swings, or what the studies prove over time, we can, at the very least, live with the knowledge that we did what we thought was the best for our children.
There are several explanations for this trend, among them that societies become more complex over time, education develops, and nutrition improves.
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Core inflation, which is a better measure of the underlying inflation trend than overall inflation, seems likely to moderate gradually over time.
What they were trying to do was build a different kind of trend line, one that tracked the time and effort spent over the years to catch a single poacher.
"While a 150, 000-170, 000 per month trend in payrolls is far from booming, it is strong enough over time to keep the unemployment rate moving down, " said Jim O'Sullivan at High Frequency Economics.
At the same time, Asia has clearly been dealing with an upward trend in inflation over the last decade, which has increased investor interest in strategies to protect against future inflation.
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Over a very long time, however, the market does follow a predictable trend.
This trend accompanied a steady decline in prices for modern, impressionist, and old masters over the same time period, according to artnet.
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