Economists said Sept. 11 seems to have accelerated a trend that has been building for decades as suburban office parks lured companies out of Manhattan.
Barrett Toan, president of Express Scripts, said last year's increase accelerated a trend observed since 1993, when the company began monitoring changes in drug spending.
He's accelerated a trend started by Jay Leno's Tonight Show successor, Jimmy Fallon, for focusing on shareable content – namely a segment called Carpool Karaoke, in which Corden drives around with stars singing their hits.
Prof. Samuel E. Bodily, the other author of the Virginia study, said that although the environment at Enron had been genteel, compared with that at a New York investment bank, the review process had accelerated a trend toward shortsightedness.
Cheap gas and environmental legislation under the Clean Air Act, aimed at emissions of sulphur dioxide, nitrous oxide and mercury (but not carbon dioxide) from dirty coal plants, accelerated a trend that is set to continue.
The withdrawals accelerated a trend that began in the middle of last year, and came despite a European commitment to pump up to 100 billion euros into the Spanish banking system.
