51.   Going forward, Severino feels that global trends and changes will drive Asean to greater cohesion, solidarity and integration.

52.   If achieved, these sales would continue a global trend of governments losing faith in the metal as the best store of value during an era of low inflation.

53.   In fact, financial mergers and acquisitions as a means to improve competitiveness and efficiency is a global trend, Anwar said.

54.   It is all part of a global trend, and there are no real losers as all the companies benefit.

55.   It said several major donors were unable to maintain previous funding levels, part of a global trend of lower funding for agricultural research.

56.   Its plans for telecommunications mirror a global trend in which investment is growing, even in shrinking economies, Merrill Lynch analyst Michel Morin told Dow Jones Newswires.

57.   Jeffry Frieden, a Harvard professor of government, said Mexico fell victim to the global trend of growing complexity within nations.

58.   Judging by the global trend as is happening in Japan, fundamental research is being given a new lease of life.

59.   Labor issues this year include international safety standards for mines and moves to protect people who work at home in a growing global trend.

60.   Luxury business bucks global trend in Brazil.