21.   The Internet accelerates this trend.

22.   The main criticism leveled at the plan is that it will accelerate a trend of moving deeply troubled children out of costly institutional care.

23.   The rising use of stock options predates the Internet, but the remarkable success of technology firms over the last five years has helped to rapidly accelerate the trend.

24.   The Republican Congress should welcome and accelerate this trend.

25.   The terrorist attacks accelerated these trends, according to data from Lipper, the fund-tracking company.

26.   The trend has been accelerated this quarter, analysts said.

27.   The Temperance movement changed that, and Prohibition accelerated the trend.

28.   The terrorist attacks accelerated these trends.

29.   This new proposal would accelerate that trend.

30.   Those prices are now falling and the U.N.-Iraq agreement could accelerate the trend.