And what a boom it would be to get back to the long-term trend!
Since the mid-1970s the long-term trend in household saving has been downwards (see chart above).
But the long-term trend is clear: We will need more and more skilled people.
Of the main currencies, the yen looks by far the cheapest relative to its long-term trend.
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We believe the estimated deceleration in growth is more a seasonal factor than a long-term trend.
Its leaders chose to ignore the long-term trend away from traditional retail toward on-line shopping.
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To return median single-family house prices to the long-term trend takes another 20% drop from here.
There is a long-term trend for more content and applications using resources in connected data centers.
It has the benefit of being logically consistent and I suspect it is an important long-term trend.
The government said the figures were provisional, so it could not say whether they showed a long-term trend.
This was one reason why the economy could grow faster than its long-term trend without igniting inflationary pressure.
Yet the most important reason for Autonomy's success is that it is riding a long-term trend in computing.
This is a long-term trend that will have both positive and negative implications.
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Yet Chief Executive Carly Fiorina says, "the long-term trend in the U.S. is a slowed replacement pattern" for PCs.
Although US joblessness has fallen, the Fed said it wanted to see signs of a long-term trend of falling unemployment.
But the long-term trend is in the contract manufacturers' favor and the electronics slump will accelerate the push to outsource.
And this is just the peak of what has been a long-term trend in reduced state support for higher education.
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The inflow to stocks and recent uptick in rates is not enough to signal a change in the long-term trend.
Yet HP's CEO Carly Fiorina says that "the long-term trend in the U.S. is a slowed replacement pattern" for PCs .
But he goes further than just believing that America's long-term trend growth rate is, say, 2-3% a year rather than 4-5%.
Last year, SAB had said that consolidation in China was a long-term trend and would lead to "greater industry profitability".
Past growth figures suggested the Scottish economy had ended that long-term trend, and put Scotland around the mid-point of UK performance.
Global passenger traffic has risen by 6%, faster than the long-term trend.
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"It's clearly a long-term trend, but Apple's always been aggressive about making moves like this sooner as opposed to later, " Gartenberg said.
This long-term trend from relatively high-tax states toward lower-tax regimes is typical for most states, even when close borders are not shared.
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Although the Sars epidemic has disturbed the pattern, the long-term trend shows that China is one of the fastest growing Japanese tourist destinations.
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Novell will perform well over the next year-to-18 months, but unless something dramatic happens, the long-term trend will inexorably be in Microsoft's favor.
Mr. LEVERETT: Well, yes, we have seen a drop, but I would still say that the long-term trend is going to be toward higher prices.
In any case, so long as growth is below long-term trend, the gap between actual and potential output will continue to grow, easing inflationary pressure.
The long-term trend has been for shorter stays in bigger hospitals.
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