Mrs. Unger, 68, has noticed a marked increase in young people buying mah-jongg sets and cards, which list winning combinations.
Mr. DeBuse said his company had also noticed a marked increase in demand from charterers for superyachts in the Indian Ocean and Oceania.
Unlike previous decisions to raise the threat level, this one was apparently unanimous.The authorities have noticed a marked increase in "chatter" among supposed al-Qaeda operatives.
He told the Ambassador that he was a frequent visitor to Central Asia and the Caucasus and had noticed a marked increase in Russian pressure and concomitant anxiety among the locals post-August events in Georgia.
When I was covering the police crackdown on protests in Istanbul, I noticed a marked increase in abusive tweets mentioning me, from a small group of always anonymous, pro-government tweeters.
In addition, the Kenya Wildlife Service KWSS) noticed a marked increase in poaching wherever Chinese labor camps were located and in fact set up specific interdiction efforts aimed to reduce poaching (see ref B).
Dr. Steven T. DeKosky, a professor of neurology and psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, says he has noticed a marked increase in anxiety among baby boomers, who are watching their parents descend into Alzheimer's and hoping that new medicines will help them avoid the same fate.
Except that over the past couple of years, Hunsader had noticed a marked increase in the number of messages entering the system, mostly in the form of split-second changes to the price or size of quotes, despite the number of actual trades remaining constant.
Malía Everette, who creates customized tours for Global Exchange, a 20-year-old nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, says she has noticed a marked increase among what she calls her "five-star customers" for the company's "reality tours," which focus on educational exchanges with people working in the fields of women's rights, public health and environmental issues.
