And we will continue to focus on improving operations and making Citi more efficient and responsive to emerging trends and growth opportunities.
Consumer credit flows — a relatively new data series that the Fed says is more responsive to economic trends — also cooled in June.
"It has always been Tefaf Maastricht's aim to be responsive to global trends in the art market," said Ben Janssens, chairman of the fair's executive committee in an e-mail announcing the possible partnership.
This requires that the Postal Service operate more like a retail business than an independent government agency, and that means it must be consumer-centric — responsive to changing trends in consumer needs and desires.
- The activities undertaken have been appropriate, consistent with national priorities and responsive to emerging trends in the epidemic.
On a population level, the aggregated core Healthy Days data are responsive to (i) trends (see prevalence data on the CDC HRQOL Web site at ), (ii) seasonal patterns [ 25], and (iii) the effect of a major disaster (unpublished analysis by authors).
Despite strong labor market incentives to do so, the supply of workers with the relevant skills seems less responsive to labor demand trends (i.e., less elastic) than we might have believed, even in the long run, and especially among disadvantaged students.
The truth is that many consumers who think they love fashion are in love with a facsimile, fast fashion: a merchandising model that blurs the distinction between garments (basic wardrobe staples with long lead times) and fashion (more complex pieces with short lead times) and is super-responsive to changing trends.
I don't want to overdo the elasticity concept too much — for example, the most elastic states, like New Hampshire and Rhode Island, might be 20 or 30 percent more responsive to changes in national trends than the average state, but not 200 percent or 300 percent more responsive.
