There are those who think that a superpower facing eventual decline but for now possessing unprecedented influence would be wise to sustain this trend, encouraging respect for international law and the evolution of international policing structures.
And perhaps more important, the GDP figures seemed to back up other evidence that the recovery is broadening beyond exports and capital investment, to include consumption.A tightening job market may help to sustain this trend.
To sustain this trend, more precise information is needed on EPI performance.
Subsequent changes to sea ice and primary productivity after the initial population expansion may have sustained this trend in unison with increasing breeding habitat availability.
24 The introduction of smoking bans in public places in a number of countries worldwide has demonstrated that there is a political will to sustain this trend.
Candace Thille, the director of Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, warns that sustaining this new trend requires results and that more studies of the impact of open education resources are needed.
Broader cultural changes, however, may sustain the trend.
Economists said that the administration could help sustain the trend.
The Fed's chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, said recently that the economy was not growing fast enough to sustain the trend.
To sustain the trend, though, it would be critical to reduce the cost of capital through financial-sector liberalization, Mr. Aziz said.
