Excluding also the transition economies and the downward bias they impart to world totals, the per capita meat consumption in the rest of the world has been growing at a much slower, but always decelerating, pace: by 2.5 kg in the first decade mid-1960ss mid-1970s70s), and by 1.6 kg in the second and third decades (see memo item in Table 3.10).
The non-manufacturing ISM report showed expanding business activity, new orders and employment, but at a decelerating pace.
In the meantime, before we finally give up the ghost on the idea of a group of people being bound together by anything like a "nation," our collective unconscious is firing its neurons at a decelerating pace.
It may be the last opportunity they have to fill their boots in that manner, for no side, surely, will come at them on the slow, grabby pitch in Chittagong with anything other than spin or wickedly decelerated pace.
More recently, there has been increased interest in slow reading as result of the slow movement and its focus on decelerating the pace of modern life".
I would certainly agree that this trend is of a piece with the deep longing many of us share to "decelerate the pace of modern life".
And we should remember that it easier to decelerate the pace of change than it is to accelerate it, particularly once change begins, before inertia and fatigue set in.
New Zealand have perennially shown there is more than one way to play and Wales have in Rhys Webb a scrum-half who scents opportunity, and in Scott Williams they have a clever runner who, like England's Jonathan Joseph, seems to be able to step at pace without decelerating.
China's economy, however, is decelerating at an alarming pace, largely because its sales to foreign markets are plunging.
Understandably, central government technocrats are too worried about their own economy, which is decelerating at an alarming pace, to help others.
In places like Saudi Arabia, where the government is in the business of tightly controlling its population, it's a very useful, if brutal, tool, leaving little chance the kingdom will decelerate their bloody pace in 2016, even as the world moves away from executions.
