21.   Bond said current economic trends make it more important to clarify the independent contractor definition.

22.   Adding to the uncertainty, many economists are challenging whether these economic trends are being measured accurately.

23.   But analysts also note that the jobs report is not necessarily as bad as it looks on the surface, since unemployment rates lag other economic trends.

24.   But for now the fisherman seemed too consumed with filling their nets to worry about economic trends.

25.   But more recent economic trends have called even that basic tenet of Americanism into question.

26.   But others were wary about reading too much into the data, because recent home sales have been defying expectations and bucking economic trends.

27.   Campaigning around the country, he assures blue-collar workers that he is worried about the economic trends, evidently trying to show that he cares.

28.   By contrast, the portfolio managers at Fidelity evaluated individual companies and securities, often in offbeat places, and played down broad economic trends.

29.   Consider four or five new economic trends, none of them obscure.

30.   Despite the promising numbers, Europe has emerged from recession with social and political problems that will constantly cast a shadow over such bright economic trends.