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Given the still relatively robust domestic demand and an anticipated pick-up in fixed investment spending, the trade balance should continue to trend weaker.

Global markets are the best investment at this point. The growth story developing globally is strong, the companies have better valuations, and the trend is doing well.

Global data indicate a 30-year trend toward more frequent and intense hurricanes.

If we see an upward trend in delinquency ratios, we tighten our lending, but we have not had to do that.

If the trend with pre-retires continues, the sheer size of the 77 million baby boomer population, coupled with impending postage increases, will drive up the government's costs to issue paper checks exponentially.

If the trend with pre-retirees continues, the sheer size of the 77 million baby boomer population, coupled with impending postage increases, will drive up the government's costs to issue paper checks exponentially.

If the trend lines hold, we'll actually top last year a little bit.

If the trend continues unchecked it could neutralize the improved functional status in 10 or 15 years. It's critical we find ways to reduce disability, both physical and cognitive.

If the City Council does not radically alter the trend in housing, then Davis in 2020 will become a much more exclusive community and ... a larger percentage of its workforce than today will be living elsewhere. ... And that, in particular, if we do not require a good portion of the new houses to be permanently affordable, then while we may have smaller homes, they will be very expensive homes.

If that trend continues, it will help moderate customer prices in the future.

If that trend continues, it's good for a lot of parts of the economy, but not so good for us.

If that trend continues, it could be damaging to seasonal growers and could affect their ability to harvest.

If such a trend is allowed to develop without control, domestic companies will be in great danger.

If such a trend continues, I won't be surprised if a fan takes a detrimental step towards a player.

If state and local spending follows a trend similar to that of federal agencies over the past 10 years, GSA Schedule 70 could become a significant centralizing force for the public sector IT market.

If it's a seesaw, it's a little bit tilted in favor of renters. If the occupancy trend continues, then people aren't going to be putting rents up. Rents would at least stay stable and possibly decline.

He improved as much in one season as any player we can remember and we expect that trend to continue. We believe Damien will be a part of our young, talented core for years to come.

We expect to see the continuation of the slowing trend in many markets.

There is a global realignment trend in the steel industry ... it's a matter of how you look at Nippon Steel, the world's third-largest steel maker.

We took this whole vertical integration plan very seriously. There are some fundamental changes happening in our business, including a short-term shift in attitudes, a mid-term shift in technology and the long-term trend is a significant shift in who is buying the room. We know we now have to provide options to fill those shifts.

We're pleased our trend of year-over-year increases in sales and net income continues. We added more than seven billion dollars in sales in the quarter and ended the year strong.

What I sell is the higher knowledge of knowing what's next and not following the trend of what's now.

We've expected existing home sales to weaken for some time. It does appear that we're starting to see that trend manifest itself.

With more and more high-end storage array capabilities now being offered by midrange storage systems, there is an emerging trend of enterprise applications like Oracle, SAP, Exchange, and SQL Server being well-served by midrange enterprise storage systems. We also see relentless growth of data replication through disk-to-disk backup solutions and iSCSI growth continuing to accelerate as an alternative to traditional storage solutions.

We are experiencing fairly substantial giving, and I would expect that trend would continue for the next several days.

What you're seeing is that inflation is rising, ... It's still at a low level, but you know what the trend is. The question to ask is, How much is too much? At what point does the Fed say it's risen enough that we don't want it to go any higher? That's the difficult question to answer.

What you have here is an equal protection issue. There is a trend in land use to prefer entities that create tax revenue and jobs.

What we've seen over the last six months is a continuing trend toward higher-quality names across the Internet space. We think that's going to continue.

Here, we also have a very volatile indicator. The trend remains downward. I don't think that has changed.

Going forward, we would expect to see satisfaction trend back upward now that the holiday rush is over.

Gold continues to rally on continued U.S. dollar weakness, a trend I expect to continue over the next week.

He should go ahead and pay me for next year's game, I would guess, ... I see a trend and I don't see it changing anytime soon. I mean, we're dominating the Sun Belt.

Historically, Europeans have been fanatical about their chocolate, especially dark chocolate. Slowly, that trend has made its way to America.

The pace of review has quickened, which creates dynamism. There's no indication of a market trend going back east. Besides, if we think we have a hold on business just because of geography, then we're only real-estate agents.

The overwhelming trend will be more to position portfolios for the next year and my guess is that you'll see some of the stocks that have done well do better,

There is a persistent trend that we are seeing in Asian currencies and it has got to do with more than a view on Fed policy.

There is an unstoppable trend towards digital downloading of content.

There is an increasing trend to have the call center representative portray the same image that the company is out there marketing.

There is an increased intensity in the trend towards packet-switched equipment, ... Lucent gets about 50 percent of its revenue from older world technology products, and the growth rates on those products are heading to the lower single digits.

There is a new cautious optimism emerging in the industry. Improved economic prospects in Europe and Asia, combined with an improving situation in the US, will lead to reduced losses in 2006 and strengthened profitability in 2007. While the trend is positive, we are nowhere near sustainability.

There is an ever-growing number of homes on the market, and while the overhang is not great at the current selling pace, it could become a problem if we trend back toward more sustainable levels,

Under Chairman Greenspan, monetary policy has become increasingly transparent to the public and the financial markets, a trend that I strongly support.

We may want to wait for another month or so to be sure that such gains were truly reflective of a upward trend and not just a possible distortion arising from the temporary 'hurricane-related' loss of many lower-paying service sector jobs,

We may have another couple of days, or a week left of this counter trend move, but it's within the framework of an intermediate trend downward.

We looked into what do you do to make a real luxury community. What are those buyers looking for? This is a trend we spotted a couple of years ago.

We look at them and tally them to see what a trend is on an issue, but we don't generally respond to mass e-mails, ... But if somebody takes the time to write us a letter, we really want to respond to them.

HP is the Unix vendor that drove this trend toward virtualization in the mid-90s, so they've been working on it for some years but haven't always marketed it effectively,

Hurricane Katrina was definitely a catalyst for gas prices but even before that we were facing an upward trend in prices.

I also think that anyone in late years of college is anxious about their future, asking themselves, 'What do I want to do? Also, I think that we all live vicariously through children and these kind of trend stories are an expression of adult anxiety.

I also see in our business a bigger trend toward dumping those houses and buying smaller houses.

Harley-Davidson has succeeded for 100 years. We hope China will continue that trend for another 100 years.

The only thing that isn't debatable is that we have a downward trend in yield,

Kentucky Fried Chicken is the one big trend that's going on in the world today. We're the chicken capital of the USA.

I wouldn't be surprised to see (the Dow) trend lower because markets don't trend up in a time of rising interest rates.

Jack said it shows the trend, and the trend is toward legalizing assisted suicide.

I would say it's a dueling trend that retail mutual fund companies are starting hedge fund like vehicles to retain that talent. That is a weapon in a fund company's arsenal.

I would say the toy industry is facing its stiffest competition ever from non-toy categories, and with rapidly advancing technology, I wouldn't say this is a trend that shows any signs of slowing.

I would say that profitability did contract in 2005 as a result of increased competition. Many shops are working for less money but making up for it on volume and hopefully that is a trend that won't continue.

Katrina and Rita effects still linger, though they are fading, ... Claims will likely rise next week as the full effects of Wilma hit, but the downward trend is very clear.

Just look at the way this trend is changing gardening.

Job-cut announcements have been on a roller coaster ride this year. The lack of any discernible trend in corporate downsizing is indicative of the uncertainty associated with the current economy.

I think it is a very positive trend if we are moving away from agriculture ... which is very destructive for soil and habitats, ... But are we conserving wildlife ... or are we actually starting to farm these animals?

I think Iran should really bear in mind that this step is a step in the wrong direction, ... We are trying to prevent a negative trend with fatal consequences.

It caught me off guard when I saw those numbers. But then I realized that in my own practice, I've been working with a lot of single women lately; young women just out of college, widows wanting to downsize, divorced women who are starting over. So, I see no reason why this trend shouldn't continue.

I think it's more of a one-month blip than an indication that the truck trend is starting to reverse.

I think it's kind of funny they're changing roles, but I'm also getting the impression that, over the past two years, there seems to be a trend to moving top management around so they get more well-rounded experience. I think that's a good move and maybe a part of the company's succession plan.

I think it's an overall trend that environmental standards and safety standards are getting tighter and tighter. When you have an event like this (Firestone recall), that raises sensitivity about getting the safest vehicle possible.

I think it's going to be a big trend and that's evidenced by a bunch of things, one of which is the emergence of companies like Juno.

It is a challenging problem for retailers. I think you're going to see retailers reacting to this trend by using technology as a deterrent. There's a high level of awareness around the retail public already.

It is a little bit of a trend with the price of fuel going up and (biofuels) being environmentally friendly. There is a niche market for it.

It is a legislative trend across the world. China will definitely catch up with this trend, in spite of obstacles we are confronted with now.

I think the market will continue to move higher next week as we sort through the economic numbers. Perhaps the advance won't be as vivacious as it has been, but the upward trend is in place.

I think the key in the market is technology, because what has been giving us this extraordinary earnings growth is spectacular earnings growth from a lot of tech companies. They are telling us the second half is going to be slower. So I think the broader market earnings trend is going to be not sharply down, but trending down.

I think the next couple months will be pretty choppy. It will probably be November before we can think about trend sales rates again.

I think the overall trend remains positive, but we are sort of in limbo right now.

I think that (packed byline) is an increasing trend when you get real large-scale issues like this. No one person knows how to put it all together.

I think the Fed's going to lower by 25 basis points and I think the trend is going to show stabilization and a pick-up in growth. The current data is not going to look terrific but there will be signs of stabilization.

It is pretty clear to us that from a long-term trend perspective the phenomenon of Dubai is real. We might have debates around absolute valuations at any given point of time, which is what people do when they are picking stocks, but in terms of the long-term I think we are fairly comfortable with Dubai as an economy that will be a significant factor in the region as well as globally. This is why we are putting significant resources here.

I think we'll continue to see wages rise, and real wages will continue to rise as well. The key thing here is that the economy continues to expand, as it has well above trend line.

I think we will probably see another couple of little tests lower in the next few days, but as a whole the trend is still very firm.

I think we will observe a trend of mobile services replacing fixed-line services (in Russia). This trend would lead to the migration of long-distance traffic from regional fixed-line companies to mobile operators. In addition, competition among regional fixed-line operators for generated long-distance traffic will increase.

I think what the folks up there in Sprint territory are experiencing is this euphoria, this anticipation that these changes are going to take place. They are (going to happen), but they aren't there yet. This is a trend and we are on the front end of the curve.

I think what we saw yesterday (Tuesday) was a bounce in the bear market. It could continue. There's no question there are going to be sharp rallies all the way along in here. But I think the trend has been as long as the Fed has been active, we've basically seen a down market with some rallies in it.

I think both in the U.S. and in Europe we are going to have a good first half until the trend in earnings growth peters out.

I think at the moment they're riding a crest. The entire jeweled trend is waning, and by the end of the year it might crash and burn.

I think arena football (revenue-sharing model) is a trend in regards to sports that don't have competitive leverage to get guaranteed rights fee,

I think any thorough analysis of the gubernatorial elections is going to show that the elections were decided on local and state issues and the candidates and their agendas, ... I do not think you can conclude it represents any larger trend whatsoever." ()

I think this is just a hiccup in a very strong trend that we expect to continue.

I think we are still in the early stages of the bull trend in copper. We have years of strong prices ahead of us.

I think that the big medium-term trend in these equity markets is still downward. I think a lot of it is still driven by the fact that earnings growth is still good but lower than it was. Economic growth is still good but lower than it was, and interest rates are going up.

I think that the trend toward freedom is virtually irreversible . . . these folks are too young and too vigorous.

I think that we have to hit the mark, and once we hit that, a trend develops in order for a lot of those types of films to be made.

I think some people would say the numbers are the same. But with the casinos, we're fighting a trend and everyone else is going down, ... The fact is, we're not going down. Our people do go to the casinos, but they don't go up there every day.

It is hard to make the case that the inflation threat from import prices is serious. The trend is clearly not as good as in the recent past, but it is not bad enough to cause any problems on its own.

I think the seed was planted many years ago and it was an idea whose time came and quite frankly I think it really spurred after 9/11. It's definitely a growing trend and we have had much more business in this area since then.

I think the trend in this bracket is big-scoring posts. It seems to be the thing to have. I'm glad we have two of them (juniors Brooke Smith and Kristen Newlin).

I think the trend has changed since yesterday afternoon, when investors started focusing on individual stocks, instead of the market as a whole.

I think the trend generally is higher but it's going to be fits and starts.

It is a trend that is certainly being noticed around the country.

It is a trend because national chains are looking at destinations. Obviously, the mystique, the uniqueness, the ambiance of the River Walk pulls them into this.