A recent survey of 103 organizations by The Chronicle of Philanthropy also put the trend in perspective, suggesting that online gifts totaled less than 1percentt of donations.
Kevin Rowland, headteacher of the Oasis Academy in Immingham - which is 5.5 kilometres away from its nearest school and just outside Grimsby, put the trend down to a lack of aspiration in isolated communities.
The index put the trend down to an ageing population, a decrease in alcohol consumption, a rise in wages and changes in police practices.
Dr Greg Slabaugh, senior lecturer in computer science at City University, puts the trend down to the rise in tuition fees and students' nervousness over the current graduate job market.
This week's Free exchange column puts the trend in perspective:Participation rates have declined sharply for "prime-age" men and women between 25 and 54, and risen slightly for those aged 55 and over.
It put the two trends together and invented its own "traditional" African drink.Diageo's most successful African product, Senator Keg, was introduced six years ago and aimed at the impecunious.
Academics put the long-term trend in corporate profit growth at no more than 4% per year, not the 7% needed for dividend discount models to justify current stock prices.
(Grode) 'The Laramie Project Cycle' (opens on Tuesday) The Tectonic Theater Project's 2000 play, "The Laramie Project," has rightly claimed a place as a milestone in American theater, putting the growing trend of documentary theater in the service of a devastating story: the murder of a gay 21-year-old man in Laramie, Wyo.
Terry Pechacek, of the CDC's Office of Smoking and Health, claims that the full health benefits of not smoking are not seen for 10-15 yeafterfter kicking the habit.Smoking is banned in all public places in California, including restaurants and bars, putting the existing trend into legal form.
The trend has put the City of Industry on a must-see list for the Chinese government, which has been sending two to three trade delegations a month for the last four years to meet with the chamber of commerce, although the recent threat of the severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, epidemic has cut back on that pace.
Microsoft's carbon fee system could gently put the brakes on this trend, but only if its carbon price is high enough, said Cook. "The internal carbon pricing mechanism has promise to become a driver of better investments in its future cloud, but key to its success is the price at which fees are strong enough".
