1.   As the trend toward a flatter management structure and worker empowerment continues, production managers will increasingly perform the role of facilitators.

2.   Instead they illustrate better the shifting balance within conglomerates between one media interest and another and secondly, the trend toward internationalization.

3.   Sales of electronics and batteries here mirror the international trend toward buying cordless, portable goods.

4.   The manufactured-housing group is expected to continue its trend toward higher earnings.

5.   The recent trend toward cognitive approaches to metaphor provides a means of formalizing such a conception.

6.   The rise of these organizations reflects the trend toward special-interest politics that has accompanied the Decline of the political party.

7.   The trend toward giant law firms that operate like corporations gets much of the blame.

8.   The trend toward tabloidization and instant popularization has eroded the boundary lines between news and entertainment, objective journalism and advocacy.

9.   The young started a trend toward living in the downtown area.

10.   ...a trend toward downsizing in the personal computer market.