21.   Molina said most scientists were convinced that the current global warming trend was at least partly caused by a buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

22.   Moreover, Cuba is an island, and it is easier than Eastern Europe to isolate from global trends.

23.   Not every region follows the global trend.

24.   On a warm, gray spring afternoon, pacifists and Palestinians joined anarchists and environmentalists in peaceful protest of a variety of American policies and global trends.

25.   Now its cell phones blanket the world, and its fortunes rise and fall on global trends, not Finnish ones.

26.   Partly, it reflects a global trend, says Katsunori Yamazato, a literature professor at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa.

27.   Rhone-Poulenc had long been expected to join the global trend for chemical companies to sell off their drug activities to allow those businesses to be better valued.

28.   Publisher Patrick McGovern, chairman of the International Data Group, has been following global trends in the computer field for three decades.

29.   Soros said he will also postpone his Quantum India Fund, which was slated to include such so-called macro investing, which involves making bets on global macroeconomic trends.

30.   The Davos World Economic Forum is always useful for gauging global trends.