The increased applications primarily come from international students, but American applicants are also more frequently looking abroad when considering their options for a business education, based on information from the 2012 World Geographic Trend Report.
Data compiled by GMAC in the 2012 World Geographic Trend Report indicates that the percentage of GMAT score reports sent to US business schools in 2012 has dropped from 81 to 76 percent since 2008, and those sent to schools abroad have increased proportionally.
"Although in the United Kingdom presently resistant organisms are uncommon, we're seeing an increasing trend which is a small one at the moment but in other countries throughout the world, the trend is much faster and that will eventually come here irrespective of the organism, " he warns.
The survey also noted the continuing trend towards virtualization of services in offices throughout the world, although the trend seems to be leveling off.
Fortunately for the industrialised world, the trend has not spread to other commodities yet.
So how did IBM eschew business machines to become a player in the world of fashion trend forecasting?
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Maybe the world continues its trend of becoming less energy intensive, mitigating demand and alleviating supply pressure .
Still, nowhere in the Arab world do the trend lines look that hopeful.
The increasing trend in world crop yields from 1960 to 1980 is exactly the same as from 1980 to 2010.
Upscale hotels around the world are recognizing the trend toward luxury stag weekends and are stepping up to create bachelor party packages to meet the demand.
The American historical experience has always been the deeper the recession, the stronger the recovery, as America has always returned to its long term, world leading, growth trend.
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Asia is buying fewer Canadian forestry and mineral exports, which has exacerbated a 20-year downward trend in world commodity prices that roughly corresponds to the loonie's own 20-year depreciation.
When the rest of the world is long only stocks and mutual funds and their world is collapsing, trend followers are taking advantage of that, in a very honest, ethical way.
Given that the company is now larger, has a more dominant position in publishing and is the world leader on the trend to on-line retail it is a very good stock to own.
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.
Hence the 3.5G networks rolled out over the past few years by mobile carriers elsewhere in the world, and the trend to even faster 4G services, capable of download speeds of 20 megabits per second or more.
Memoto represents a development in how we document the world around us, a trend known as lifelogging.
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Finally, in a world where traders believe the trend is their friend, one should start to bet on a trend reversal.
My staff and I road-tested numerous chartist tools to see if they were valid in the real world--they included trend lines, resistance and oscillators.
Driven to a deal Last year we predicted that Volvo would buck the auto world's recent merger trend and remain independent (Aug. 10, 1998).
With many countries around the world in recession, the trend of commodity prices can mean the difference between a deeper downturn and a faster recovery.
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Voluntourism is a rising trend in the world.
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Well, the American historical record is the worse the recession, the stronger the recovery, as the American economy snaps back to its long term, world leading, economic growth trend, which entails actually faster than normal growth for a time to catch up.
As this trend continues around the world both capital and talent will flee to places that welcome them.
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In this Twenty20 World Cup it seems the same trend is continuing as England strive for the perfect formula.
"I think it's just coincidental, " says Paul Ferguson, a researcher at Trend Micro, the world's third-largest Internet security company behind McAfee and Symantec.
Europe has seen far more buy-out deals than other parts of the world in recent years, a trend that is widely expected to continue.
Indeed, the three-year decline of stock markets around the world has effectively frozen the consolidation trend, according to James Angel, a professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.
So far we have received increasing numbers of WME nominations every year, and we hope to keep that trend for the 2012 World's Most Ethical Companies recognition, too.
That brings us to the second major trend, which is the world's ongoing dependence on fossil fuels.
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