The number of members has increased with respect to last year, and the trend continues.

26. About 60 per cent of the countries that reported on trends in illicit consumption of drugs reported an increase or a large increase. Another 30 per cent reported a stable situation, while the remaining 10 per cent reported a decrease or a large decrease.

Education services tend to increase at the secondary level.

I'm noticing that it's happening all over the country, and the good news is that it's growing.

This general trend is complemented by the rise in bilateral investment treaties.There are more than 1,300 bilateral investment treaties, most of which were signed in the current decade.

(c) Underdevelopment is increasing.

The current trend is towards an increase in the size of housing units, as measured in terms of the number of rooms built, not including kitchens.

The tendency towards increases at the top level distorted the grade pyramid.

Drug abuse trends in the region indicate that cocaine, coca paste and crack cocaine abuse is increasing.

A steady trend of increasing numbers of women in State service is being observed.

The trend throughout the country is that the number of women graduating from colleges and universities is increasing.

These are the trends that are taking place.

Cocaine production has followed the same trend as coca leaf cultivation, pointing to a slight increase.

The Chaco has received the only other upward trend score, represented primarily by an increase in its area of soybean production.

Recent trends have shown a significant increase in other resource contributions.

While foreign direct investment flows kept increasing, the trend could not be guaranteed.

In view of a growing trend in this area, we are observing rapid growth in the urban informal sector and an increase in the incidence of hazardous employment and crime.

A growing trend is that United Nations interventions have to be made simultaneously at various levels.

Bigamy and polygamy convictions by Republic of Tajikistan courts

The growing trend towards South South investment flows would also lead to an increase in South South investment disputes.

Partial physical disability of people is connected with the growing trend of disability and the increased number of persons affected by work related diseases.

The statistics show that preschool attendance rose between 1994 and 1998, including among girls.

There is a scaling.

As income increases, consumption patterns tend to evolve along fairly predictable lines.

In 1997, it will reach approximately US 680 million with a trend to further increase in the coming years.

This trend has greatly increased in the last few decades as incomes have risen and transport costs declined.

(c) Increase in the number of publications on trends and typologies of organized crime

To reverse that trend, promotion of direct investment and official financial flows was imperative.

19. The outlook for 1998 is that Mozambique will continue the trend towards strengthening economic performance.

This trend is likely to continue up to (at least) 2000, and additional gas supplies will come to match any increase in domestic demand.

The number of paying students tends to increase.

The participation of minorities in State administration has followed a positive trend, more than tripling in the last seven years.

Recent years have seen women account for an increasing percentage of health care managers.

Despite the natural growth of the refugee population the UNRWA budget was not increasing.

Figures 15 to 17 below show the increased trend in the number of periodic payments processed with no increase in staff, and the increased trend in the average time taken to respond to complaints concerning the non receipt of payments, or delays in receipt, and bank charges.

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Rates of HIV AIDS infection increase, inter alia, owing to increased sexual assault.

And then there is this other really interesting movement that's happened in California, which is about carrot mobs.

But it's getting better.

A new trend shows a growing concentration of trade in some developing countries.

What are the trends? If we just prolong the trends, without any real advanced analysis, to 2050, there are two things that can increase the energy use.

But the trend in medicine actually is to get exponentially smaller.

Trends are also following similar patterns use of cannabis is increasing heroin use is stable or decreasing and use of ATS and cocaine is increasing.

Beginning in 1999, the increase in enrolment has become steady and has demonstrated a tendency to accelerate due to the ageing population of subscribers.

In the case of economies in transition, there is a clear pattern of increased participation of the distribution sector in total value added.