"It didn't happen overnight, but it's steadily been happening.
Irrespective of the different plans of the two American presidential candidates, a reduction of American troop numbers is also happening steadily, from 171,000 in October to 145,000 at last blush.
That has been happening steadily through the era of industrialization, which created today's wealthy minority, and will happen far more, biologists say, as the developing world strives to become developed.
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All this is happening despite steadily decreasing church attendance (according to Faith Survey, weekly Catholic mass attendance fell over 30percentt between 1993 and 2010) and a gradual disengagement from the public as the Catholic church struggles to combat its, er, PR problems, and a global rise in secularism.
The biggest gain was in health care, which added 30,000 jobs, but health care has been growing steadily despite what happens to the rest of the economy.
That's already happening in our steadily growing global economy, with the world entering ecological overshoot in 2015 six days earlier than last year.
Could the same thing be happening in the U.S. after 16 years of steadily rising stock markets?
The problem continued happening "about once a week" for a few months but steadily got worse and seemed resistant to all allergy medication.
But the data presented at the Brussels meeting made it clear that something strange was happening: the therapeutic power of the drugs appeared to be steadily waning.
