Conventional wisdom may finally be catching up with him.

Catching Up at Different Speeds

Reality is catching up with the US, as it already has elsewhere in the world.

Innovation and R D are essential for upgrading technologies, moving up the development ladder, and catching up with developed countries.

Growth took off in China. The Chinese started catching up very quickly with the United States.

The tables do demonstrate a mostly positive trend and women seem to be catching up with men.

Real appreciation of the renminbi is inevitable so long as Chinese living standards are catching up with US levels.

In all cases secondary schools still have a long way to go before catching up with the primary school level.

One could argue that South Korea is not yet a mature economy and is only catching up with a more advanced Japan.

The gap between developed and developing countries continues to be impressive, although developing countries are slowly catching up.

The big surprise is Europe, which, unlike in 2004 and the first half of 2005, now seems to be catching up with the rest of the world.

Is America Catching the British Disease?

In western Europe, fishing vessel design is focused on compact boats with high catching power.

The United States elected a black man president. And now we are in a phase in which Asia is catching up with the West and American hegemony is being challenged.

Nevertheless, the US model is catching on.

As a result, the dream of catching up with the developed countries has to a surprising extent been realized much as Mao imagined by lower level cadres using small scale technology.

In 1964, it was the rapidly growing economies of Europe, still catching up to the US, that were howling about the Federal Reserve.

Sustained rapid growth is the result of poorer countries catching up to rich countries productivity levels not of growth in the rich countries themselves.

This time, TFP growth soared to 5 6 , partly owing to the catching up process facilitated by China s adoption of foreign technology and know how.

Her delegation supported the Advisory Committee's conclusions and recommendations on ICT, which was catching up to staff costs as a driver of expenditure in the United Nations.

There's also moves in Europe to try and stop catching them.

This picture was taken 300 feet deep, catching new species of fish.

One particular case is catching the attention of numerous bloggers across Egypt.

Once it was dark, a screen was set up and Mark showed home videos from space. He gave a fascinating talk about his adventures, complete with clips of him floating around, catching bubbles in his mouth, and so on.

Today, Mao s dream of catching up with the rest of the world has been realized, albeit a bit behind schedule, not only in steel making, where annual capacity has reached 660 million tons, but in many other sectors as well.

Why waste my time and risk catching pneumonia making a huge, beer belly snowman?

Mana Neyestani's cartoon (right) on Google being filtered is eye catching on this Facebook page.

No health issues, except that a few years back she broke her arm catching a football.

Regions exist where the biggest food production of women is that of catching shellfish and octopus.

Azerbaijan Christmas is catching up among the youth in Baku, though not widely celebrated in Azerbaijan. Aygun Janmammadova recommends a filo strudel for mushrooms and cheese lovers and more Azerbaijan cuisine is shared on AZ Cookbook.

In other words, there are twice as many industrial fishing vessels catching fish as the oceans can sustain.

Commercial fishing is the activity of catching fish and other seafood for commercial profit, mostly from wild fisheries.

Discarded and abandoned fishing nets are catching and killing marine turtles. In the sea, the nets drown turtles.

The concept of rehabilitation and psychological support for victims of family violence is still catching on in Pakistan.

Islam is the second largest religion after Christianity in many European countries,and is slowly catching up to that status in the Americas, with between 2,454,000, according to Pew Forum, and approximately 7 million Muslims, according to the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), in the United States.

There's now a ban on catching them and even landing them and even landing ones that are caught accidentally.

Shutter speed is critical to catching motion, thus sports photography is often done in shutter priority mode or manual.

Spiders use silk for many purposes, including the trailing safety dragline, wrapping eggs for reproduction, protective retreats and catching prey.

and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. Jesus said to Simon, Don't be afraid. From now on you will be catching people alive.

Most estimates suggest that global warming will put 3 more of the earth s population at risk of catching malaria by 2100.

The eye catching graphic urges Internet users to share the image if they think Israel has the right to self defense .

He spent 11 days as part of the crew, catching and tagging seven great white sharks off the coast of Mexico.

In short, with the TPP, the US is catching a big fish with small bait. But the increased trade and investment flows brought about by the TPP s ratification and implementation will benefit even the countries that must make larger sacrifices.

There appear to have been three types or sizes of ball, the pila, or small ball, used in catching games, the paganica, a heavy ball stuffed with feathers, and the follis, a leather ball filled with air, the largest of the three.

The developing countries are now following us and accelerating their pace. And actually, their cumulative emissions this year are the equivalent to where we were in 1965. And they're catching up very dramatically. The total concentrations by 2025, they will be essentially where we were in 1985.