81.   The trend among African-Americans shows the need for affordable housing, housing officials say.

82.   There is a growing trend among our graduate students and fellows to consider the big questions associated with China, namely its strategic culture and geopolitical mind-set.

83.   There is a growing trend among companies to issue such options to rank-and-file employees, not just those in the executive suite.

84.   There was no obvious trend among an unscientific sampling of people asked on the streets in the neighborhoods of Dorchester and Beacon Hill and in Cambridge.

85.   These purchases, though, are the largest in a trend among REITs to expand into related businesses in order to boost returns and slake investor thirst for growth.

86.   There is a trend among some golfers to use their wives as caddies.

87.   They have resisted a national trend among similar doctor-founded insurance companies to restructure as public companies and issue stock.

88.   They say theirs is the first large, systematic study of snacking patterns and trends among American children.

89.   This has become a growing trend among independent agents.

90.   This go-round, the collection has a Jazz Age vibe, an emerging trend among several designers.