Word: trended
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...ELECTIONS $100 million Amount by which donations to U.S. Democratic candidates outstrip those to Republicans so far in the 2008 campaign; if the trend continues, it will be the first time Democrats have raised more money in an election since detailed records began in the 1970s 16% Percentage of presidential campaign funds raised in increments of $200 or less this year, nearly four times as much as in the past two presidential campaigns for the same period
...short, fat or ugly, or all three? Must, for example, Sirius's death-eating brother Regulus be "smaller, slighter and rather less handsome than Sirius had been"? I know there are exceptions - Tom Riddle was once slitheringly handsome, before he lost his nose - but it's not an appealing trend. Short, fat, ugly people have enough problems without being evil...
...broader level, though, the Olympic apathy in Yunnan points to a more troubling trend of rising regionalism at the expense of central-government authority. The Chinese know their history well: Beset by warlords, the Middle Kingdom suffered a multitude of fractious eras, including a brutal multi-century stretch known as the Warring States Period...
Most disheartening for Patterson, however, was the measured decline in newspaper readership. He said that the survey results confirmed the marked trend of people staying away from print newspapers...
...giant hyper-realist canvases were sold by the end of the opening night, some for as much as $5,000. By international reckoning this was a small sum, but by Indonesian standards it was an extraordinary haul by a young unknown. "This is the beginning of a new trend," says Bruce Wallace, chief representative in Indonesia of UBS, the bank that helped sponsor the show. "When quality comes on the market people don't waste time...