101. Yesterday he attributed the unsteady trend to the social environment. 102. Government officials, starting with President Bill Clinton, attribute the trend to technology-aided increases in worker productivity. 103. He said the trend to global trade liberalisation would unleash enormous opportunities for trade and investment. 104. However, Nationwide, the second-largest building society, is bucking the trend to keep its mutual status. 105. A dealer at a European brokerage agreed there was little clear trend to the market, with a lot of stock specific moves such as Lend Lease. 106. Analysts have blamed the downward trend to the election in Israel of right-wing Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister. 107. Emanuel Frenkel, senior vice president at the San Francisco bank, attributed the trend to prudent monetary policies and fiscal discipline by governments around the world. 108. The ministry said that the reversal of the trend to an outflow had been caused by instability on international bond markets which had affected all industrialised countries. 109. The statement attributed the expected second quarter trend to slumping prices along with higher costs and lower inventories. 110. Through APEC we can harness, coordinate, and channel dynamic economic trends to our collective advantage. |