11.   Because many companies make dividend decisions once a year, there is a heavy seasonal trend to the results.

12.   A trend toward producing overseas seems to have crossed with a trend to the wearing of fewer bib overalls.

13.   But the proposed gay channel would take that trend to a new level.

14.   Buzzwords worry Martinez, who said genomics investors have already spent the last year jumping from one trend to another.

15.   Certainly, the trend to energy-inefficient sport utility vehicles would have been less likely had oil prices stayed high.

16.   Changing demographics and the global job market are responsible for the trend to Chinese, Arabic and Spanish, which is still the most popular foreign language among students.

17.   Coupon prototypes for Bluefly.com, an online retailer of discount apparel, reflect a trend to physical mailings.

18.   Credit these marvelous trends to the cold-eyed discipline of the barons of the bottom line.

19.   Congress seems ready to extend the trend to the on-line world, about to pass legislation that would regulate the most offensive activity on the Internet.

20.   Despite concerns about lost tax revenues, the trend to moving offshore is accelerating, involving big industrial firms such as Ingersoll-Rand and Stanley Works.