"There is great variability, but the overall trend continues to be down," said Wade F. Horn, assistant secretary for children and families.
They note that the rate of global warming has slowed in the past decade, but say the overall trend continues.
Still, Mr. Bowles said, while "the overall trend continues to be that manufacturing employment is dropping, it is dropping at a smaller rate in Brooklyn than it has in decades".
The overall trends continue to point up: globally we will see $3.8 trillion spent across all categories, a rise of 4.1% on 2012.
To know if Myanmar is truly on the road to democracy, look for these signposts in the near term: If the current overall trend continues, Myanmar could well serve as a remarkable model — and a largely peaceful one — for despotic regimes transitioning to nascent democracies.
Dr Tatem said: "This year's Olympic final was a little unusual in that some of the world's fastest runners were not present, so the time wasn't perhaps as impressive as it could have been". But he added that, if overall trends continued, the gap would close again to 0.84 seconds at the next Olympics in Beijing in 2008.
But the overall trend now, continuing through the rest of the spring, will be a flattening at the bottom of the trough and a very slow climb back.
Radio, once a $20 billion industry, is hanging on at a respectable $17 billion but faces significant challenges from a combination of new competitors pursuing its audience and advertising revenue while the overall trend toward digital advertising continues to divert budgets away from traditional media.
Kerlikowske said he was encouraged by the overall trend, however, and would continue to push for changes in what he characterized as an insular culture at the federal government's largest law enforcement agency.
Keeping with the overall trend, labor markets in Europe and Central Asia continued then their steady recovery, with striking declines in unemployment in Lithuania, Moldova, Romania, and the Russian Federation.
