The trend, which began in the mid-1980's and has been accelerating in recent years, is strongest in human rights cases.
But it's now at the lowest level since 2010, and the decline has been accelerating in recent months.
It was mainly due to the shift in political balance of power towards the moneyed classes, which has unfortunately been accelerating in recent years.
The average net worth for the group is $419,073, but the median is probably more representative because income distribution in the United States is heavily skewed toward the top, a trend that has been accelerating in recent years.
The pace of change has been accelerating in recent years, and a visitor — hoping for a good meal, a bucolic picnic or some provisions to bring home in an ice chest — needs to know where to look.
"Mounting evidence suggests that the broad public commitment to telling the truth under oath has been breaking down, eroding over recent decades, a trend that has been accelerating in recent years," he declares.
The single-family town house is experiencing a something of a renaissance, a trend that has been accelerating in recent years, brokers say, bringing back a style of gracious living in buildings that don't soar to the sky and dwarf their neighbors.
U.S. inflation has been accelerating in recent months, presenting the Federal Reserve with a tricky question as it decides how quickly to remove stimulus from the U.S. economy: Is the rise in prices a precursor of things to come or simply a "catching up" phase as people begin to spend again after a brutal winter?
Listening to Chief Keef — who has released a handful of mixtapes in the last year but whose output has been accelerating in recent months after some mainstream attention — it's possible to believe that Waka Flocka Flame is more than an anomaly, that he's instead created room for the unhinged to stage a small comeback in hip-hop.
This trend has been accelerating in recent years, as digital retail sales continue to rise at a double-digit pace, outstripping the single-digit growth of their in-store counterparts.
