Right now, however, the exodus continues, at a stepped-up pace, government data show.
Despite the stepped-up pace of economic diplomacy, Europe's response to the debt crisis still appeared to be behind the curve.
The first element is a stepped-up pace for enriching uranium 235, the fuel for reactors that can also, with additional enrichment, be used for weapons.
But it is OxyContin, and the intense publicity its use has received, that appears to be propelling the stepped-up pace of prosecutions.
The stepped-up pace has been evident in the subpoenaing of witnesses to testify before a federal grand jury in recent weeks.
Capital remarks, in insouciant fashion, thatEven at the stepped-up pace of purchases (equivalent each year to 15% of the remaining stock of JGBs not owned by the Bank), QQE could still continue for another decade.
But elsewhere government officials appeared more anxious than usual about the stepped-up pace of the bombing attacks, accusing the NATO allies of seeking to terrorize the Libyan people.
Reflecting the uncertainties of forecasting well into the future, neither the OMB nor the CBO projects productivity to continue to improve at the stepped-up pace of the past few years.
This week, the administration issued a report on the stepped-up pace of work, rolled out Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to brief reporters on its progress, and President Obama went to Columbus, Ohio, on Friday to laud the 10,000th stimulus-financed highway project.
