Word: trended
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While the U.S. remains at the forefront of science education and research worldwide, American innovation in science and technology—and the economic prosperity that accompanies it—may be eclipsed by that of other countries if this trend continues, according to “Rising Above the Gathering Storm...
...after his worst year in office. His mediocre approval ratings sit in the low forties, according to several recent national polls. And the stakes are high as Bush tries to right his presidency and give his party a stronger footing going into the November midterm elections, where the historical trend has been for the party in power to lose a substantial numbers of seats. (The notable exception was 1998, when Bill Clinton?s Democrats actually gained ground...
...industrial powers, traditional support in Canada for government social spending is now tempered by worries about high taxes, devalued retirement portfolios and personal financial security--particularly in the bulging boomer generation whose oldest members are entering their 60s. Canada's center-left political parties have taken note of the trend: the Boxing Day shooting in Toronto left even the New Democrats scrambling to articulate a tough-on-crime policy. Jason Clemens, an economist at the conservative Fraser Institute, predicts that Harper will have little trouble passing his populist legislative agenda, which includes, among other things, the proposed sales-tax cuts...
...Some of Chirac's peers may be smirking at his plight, but perhaps they should take note. For the French President's rock-bottom ratings are an extreme example of a corrosive trend in public opinion that poses just as much of a threat to U.S. President George W. Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and leaders of dozens of other countries, as well as to the heads of global institutions and corporations from IBM to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). As political and business leaders ready themselves for their trek to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum...
Summers also addressed the “anomalous and nonpermanent” trend of capital flow from developing nations to industrialized nations. He said he attributes the phenomenon to a lack of savings and rapid consumption in the United States, which he said is “sucking capital that would otherwise be productively invested in the developing world out of the developing world...