31.   Other industry groups, while compiling their figures differently, show the same trends.

32.   Pennsylvania followed the same trend.

33.   Republican pollster Frank Luntz, who once worked for Perot, recognized the same trend while helping the GOP congressional leadership put together the Contract with America this fall.

34.   Regulation is diminishing, and imports have risen, and the same trends have been visible in South Korea and some other Asian countries as well.

35.   Sally Silver, founder and chief executive of the Sally Silver Cos. in Waltham, which staffs information technology and life science firms, has noticed the same trend.

36.   Shipments also show the same trend.

37.   The Antarctic measurements show the same yearly trend and seasonal cycle, but there is no significant difference between average daily values.

38.   The contest followed the same trend as other UMass games during their stretch atop the poll.

39.   The bullpen has also suffered the same trend.

40.   The paper also faced the same inexorable demographic trends, compounded by a durable regional recession, that have made New York City a tough go for all newspapers.