We've been too brazen in taking tiny, transient, fragile trends and blowing them up into supposed groundbreaking finds that everyone needs to know about and incorporate into their own lives.
Our best hopes are the fragile democratizing trends in Iraq, the tentative green revolution in Iran, plus the young reformers now coming of age in every Arab country.
But Canaccord Genuity was more positive: Mitchells & Butlers reported prelims a fraction below our expectations but there's a fragile but improving trend developing.
And without jobs, everything from internal demand to social peace remains fragile.Two worrying trends will grow: emigration and Spain's renewed status as a country that receives more money from those living abroad than is sent out by immigrant families.
Its recovery is fragile given the negative trends.
On balance, the data show that security trends in Iraq are generally poor, economic trends are promising but glacial in pace, and political trends are hopeful but fragile.
The rise of intimate comedy portraits like "WTF with Marc Maron" and "Louie" would seem to indicate that comedy is becoming something more fragile, but is this an isolated trend or indicative of something more broad?
When we focused on individual fragile sites, we noted the same trend, i.e. an average of 82 ± 8% decrease for FRA3B (P = 0.02).
Because these economic-socio-ecological problems are generally more serious in ecologically fragile areas, this study focuses on trends seen in Ganzhou District, a typical oasis city within the Heihe River Basin (HRB) in an arid-to-semi-arid area of China.
World Bank, Jan . 13 Underneath the fragile global recovery lie increasingly divergent trends with significant implications for global growth.
