1.   The incorporation of microelectronics in products and manufacturing processes is likely to accelerate this trend.

2.   The next stage of satellite development will accelerate this trend rapidly.

3.   Accelerating the trend was an antitrust investigation of the magazine distributors begun by the Justice Department two years ago because of the lack of competition across geographic lines.

4.   Already, more companies are opening their conference calls to the public, and Reg FD will surely accelerate the trend.

5.   But SFX says it intends to accelerate the trend, despite the fact that many rock acts and audiences have prided themselves on antiestablishment views.

6.   But the Internet is becoming commercialized, and the action by the newspaper chains will greatly accelerate that trend.

7.   But the Supreme Court itself has done as much as any court in the country to accelerate the trend.

8.   Consumer groups warn that growing numbers of uninsured people could accelerate a trend already under way of shifting costs from health plans to elderly and sick plan members.

9.   For many smaller stores, the rising costs may be too much to absorb, accelerating the trend to consolidation in the retail industry.

10.   Health concerns will also reduce animal fat consumption, and technological improvements in the taste and variety of non-animal foods will accelerate the trend toward non-meat diets.