Subsidies, trade protections and other economic distortions accumulate, and resources increasingly flow to a specialised class of lawyers, bureaucrats and lobbyists who know how to work the system.
A perception of cows in fields maintained by those selling milk and dairy products masks the steady march towards a future where milk and dairy products will increasingly flow from industrial sites rather than from traditional farms.
Data is increasingly flowing around the United States, which may have intelligence — and conceivably military — consequences.
Now those old barriers are gone, and power increasingly flows hundreds of miles.
So corporate cash, once split more or less evenly between the parties, increasingly flows in only one direction.
Increasingly, flows of trade and investment flows are being matched by flows of people, as Australian and Chinese tourists discover each others' countries.
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration intends to post inspectors to embassies and consulates throughout the developing world in hopes of improving the quality of the food and medicines increasingly flowing to the United States, a top official said Thursday.
Iran's oil, which generates around 80% of government revenues, is increasingly flowing towards refineries in China, which is now its biggest trading partner.In this section When will it ever end?
As the senior American officer in Iraq since the fall of 2008, he has struggled against popular anger and apathy at home and fought internally for Iraq's share of matériel increasingly flowing to Afghanistan.
Myanmar's military government has sealed off the country to foreign journalists but information about the protests has been increasingly flowing out through wire service reports, exile groups in Thailand with contacts inside Myanmar, and through the photographs, videos and audio files, carried rapidly by technologies, including the Internet, that the government has failed to squelch.
Highly paid, college-educated people are increasingly clustering in the college-graduate-dense, high-amenity cities where they get good deals on the stuff they like, while low-skilled people are increasingly flowing out to cheaper places with a worse quality of life.
