The list shows key efficiency ratios and, if available, the trend from the previous year.
The trend from the industrial revolution onwards has been to replace humans with more efficient machines.
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As time passes, potash will trend from a mere commodity to a strategic asset.
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The symbol next to each ratio shows the trend from a prior year.
Chevron was leery of the trend from the get-go and still collects the vast majority of its profits from oil.
This growth continued a trend from October, which saw comparable store sales for Gap in North America up 5% YOY.
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Positing a trend from a single database without any supporting historical information has become a common media practice in discussing climate.
One way of describing the evolution of our political and economic models is as a macro trend from selfishness to selflessness.
For each nonprofit, we calculate two other key financial ratios as well as the direction of the trend from the previous year.
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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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This reduction is the largest single year dollar decrease in Federal contract spending on record, and establishes a three-year downward trend from 2009-2012.
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Besides presenting a lot of raw data, we calculate three major efficiency ratios for each nonprofit, and the trend from a previously reported period.
As you can see, the overall trend is clear: Russian unemployment has been on a persistent downward trend from over 8% to right around 5.5%.
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In 2008, Democrats picked up 19 House seats (with a few races still too close to call), but this represented the continuation of a trend from 2006, a year in which Democrats picked up a more impressive 31 seats.
But... look at the retail availability trend above from data harvested off Apple's iPhone locator site.
Its leaders chose to ignore the long-term trend away from traditional retail toward on-line shopping.
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Optimists predict that the elections on April 14th will show a trend away from race-based voting.
The trend away from skeuomorphic special effects in UI design is the beginning of the retina-resolution design era.
And it will accelerate the long budgetary trend away from discretionary spending towards the mandated sort, such as Social Security.
Today 70% of Forbes 400 members are self made and the group continues to trend away from family generated wealth.
Back at the Los Angeles lot, Fernandez says he thinks the trend away from SUVs and pickups is here to stay.
Start off with Visa ( V), which is the beneficiary of a trend away from cash toward debit and credit cards, especially overseas.
As a continued indication of a trend away from NiMH, full hybrid EVs will bump from 0% Li-ion-powered to 17% over the same interval.
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But Circuit City demonstrated that in a market dominated by a long-term trend away from fixed stores and toward on-line purchases, every retailer is bound to struggle.
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This trend extends from the consumer space into the enterprise.
During speculative bubbles, there is a point at which sophisticated players lose the incentive to correct a trend away from fundamentals and instead benefit from going along with it.
One positive trend arising from China's effort to integrate into the world economy, however, is that the public have become more open in expressing themselves and protecting their rights.
Contrary to popular belief, a growing number of Chinese luxury consumers are exhibiting a noticeable trend away from overt displays of wealth, and towards more understated forms of luxury consumption.
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