In the near future the trend is likely to be reversed, and the workforce will start contracting by 1% a year.
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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Logical thinking relies heavily on past events to close the mind to future events that defy the established trend.
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Backed by the acquisition of VIA Travel, the company witnessed a 14% y-o-y increase in air ticket revenues though it does not anticipate the positive trend to continue in the future.
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Now, Dr Charters has set about trying to help growers in the Champagne region decide the future of their industry, notably the trend towards smaller, more distinctive brands that reflect a particular "terroir" -- the combination of climate and soil composition that gives a wine its character.
Not surprisingly, by 2000 the previous negative trend was forgotten and the new positive trend was being extended in a straight line into the future.
Professor Cipolla says Zoe is "the interface of the future", part of a trend towards abandoning the keyboard and mouse and finding new ways of relating to computers.
However, the company expects this trend to reverse in the future, with copper output projected to rise to 4.3 billion next year, from an estimated 3.6 billion pounds in 2012, with further gains in future years.
Specifically, the phone maker will begin scanning all current and future BlackBerry World apps with the Trend Micro Mobile Application Reputation Service, a cloud-based solution that'll exist alongside BlackBerry's current security measures.
Zandi believes it's largely the trend line that affects a voter's sense of well-being, because people project that trend into the future.
If we, as human beings, continue to act as predictably in the future as we have in the past, markets should trend higher, with the occasional sell-off or correction.
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Hansbrough and Lighty are seniors so they had no choice but the trend should make future collegians lean to staying another year in school rather than coming out early since NBA scouts and general managers seem to place a higher value on the raw international players, who may be three to four years from making the roster.
The transaction fee on American Express cards has reduced from over 2.23% in 2005 to current levels of around 2% and given the increasingly competitive landscape, the trend is expected to continue well into the future.
If the trend holds, the future of malls may not include stores at all.
He says he can't predict whether the trend will continue in future years, but he does have an idea about the next few months.
We're only going to see that trend accelerate in the future.
Assuming that a similar trend continues in the future, we estimate a CAGR of 11.5% for the online apparel retail market which is slightly higher than 10% CAGR for the overall online retail market.
Their decision to keep interest rates below the inflation rate is driving equity valuations up out of necessity, and this trend will likely continue for the foreseeable future.
The key is to realize that momentum should never be used as a sole strategy for selecting securities and that the mere existence of a trend does not imply that it will continue into the future.
It is one thing for ordinary citizens to make faulty policy judgments based on projecting a past growth trend too boldly into the future.
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There is a very good chance this troubling trend will continue in the near future.
We anticipate this trend will continue for the foreseeable future, with storage virtualization accounting for a substantial portion of storage demand in the years ahead.
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The trend should continue well into the future on rising disposable income, higher standards of livings and a younger demographic where almost half the population is under 25 and eagerly looks forward to exploring the increasingly interconnected world.
Rather, they are looking longer term and anticipating what the future holds for ferrous scrap prices in the U.S. In their view, the trend is almost certainly up.
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It is unrealistic to think that this trend can be reversed in the near future.
Evidence suggests that this is a trend that will continue for the foreseeable future.
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