1.   Cardio-vascular disease threatened to increase dramatically in Latin America and other South countries, although in the developed world the trend was generally downward.

2.   Benham listed each item as evidence that the long-term pressure on interest rates is downward.

3.   Across the United States, however, the trend is downward.

4.   But the overwhelming direction of network television is downward.

5.   In the short term, the number of immigrants admitted under family categories might actually increase, but the longer-term trend would be downward.

6.   Maybe so, but the trend is unmistakably downward.

7.   Not all the movement was downward.

8.   The trend is downward.

9.   Thomas Upton, assistant vice president for life and health insurance for A.M. Best, said the ratings trend had clearly been downward.

10.   But the trend in larger investment is downward.