1.   Some academics try to counteract this trend by trying to identify the bright sparks and arrange special seminars for them.

2.   Unemployment in the area has bucked the trend by falling over the last month.

3.   REGIONAL brewer Marston Thompson and Evershed yesterday bucked the national trend by announcing increased beer sales last year.

4.   Unemployment in the North-East has bucked national trends by falling this month.

5.   An economy can, temporarily, grow faster than its long-run trend by using its capacity more intensively.

6.   And many medical institutions are cashing in on the trend by offering professional counseling and treatments focused on scientific nutrition control.

7.   Blue Bell tracks trends by region, not by age or libido.

8.   BOC Group Plc, based in Windlesham, England, has encouraged the trend by developing technology to keep fragrances lingering longer in the air.

9.   A beneficiary of the outsourcing trend by U.S. companies this decade, staff leasers like Employee Solutions take responsibility for companies workers, paying their salaries and benefits.

10.   But Charles F. Dolan, the iconoclastic founder of Cablevision Systems Corp., has bucked the bigger-is-better trend by deliberately shrinking his company.