11.   Again, researchers blamed the trend on economics.

12.   Building for the long haul was one highly visible trend on the floor of the International Builders Show in Atlanta last week.

13.   But the Marlins turned that trend on its ear.

14.   Climatologists are blaming the trend on La Nina, a cooling of Pacific waters off the coast of South American that affects global weather.

15.   Demographers, sociologists and economists blame the trend on an aging population, the growth of two-income families and persistent economic insecurity.

16.   Either way, the dominant trend on the fall movie list emerges with dazzling clarity from even the merest perusal.

17.   Even without hard data, some school security experts and students said that since the Littleton shootings, they have observed several useful trends on the local level.

18.   Hess wrote a research paper on finding trends on the Yellow Pages.

19.   If you want to annoy Lynette Jennings, force a trend on her.

20.   Jacobson says the department has studied the prison smoke-ban trend on a national scale and has not found any significant or organized resistance by inmates or staff.