111.   But with big-budget movies, the trend toward betting it all on the opening weekend seems inexorable.

112.   But this trend toward nostalgia has resulted in some odd juxtapositions, with cutting-edge video technology and hand-operated boards hanging side by side.

113.   But to Susan Greenberg, a Jew who is raising two children in Chatham, N.J., the trend toward offering melded iconography is a welcome one.

114.   But while the public discussion has focused largely on the recent trend toward advertising directly to patients, the industry still spends most of its money wooing doctors.

115.   But who is responsible for a television trend toward increasingly belligerent on-air confrontations and worrisome aftereffects?

116.   C.H. Kwan, an economist at the Nomura Research Institute, said the agreements were part of a broader trend toward cooperation among monetary authorities in East Asia.

117.   By initiating a new effort to overcome their estrangement, the two governments were following a worldwide trend toward peace that had left them behind, the aides said.

118.   Carlson reports a growing trend toward companies selling directly to the public.

119.   CCL will benefit from an industry trend toward contracting out more work while reducing the number of suppliers, McLeod said.

120.   Clothing sales have been particularly hard hit, suffering also from the trend toward more casual business and other apparel at a time of ferocious foreign competition.