21.   Positive trends course beneath the tumultuous surface.

22.   Putnam did discover one positive trend that goes against the grain.

23.   Referring to her husband and Sonic Youth bandmate, Thurston Moore, she said the coming together of music and clothes stores might be a positive trend.

24.   Steve says the Clinton Administration may claim part of the credit for the positive trend, but there is certainly more to the story.

25.   Still, the Fed may not have to tighten at all if the economy slows as expected and a couple of other positive trends continue.

26.   Some, like Galliner of the Volkshochschule, maintain it is a positive trend.

27.   Still, investors expect the positive trend in prices to hold.

28.   That is not a positive trend.

29.   The figures remain higher than this time last year, but state officials said it could be the start of a positive trend.

30.   The genocide it wrought overshadows positive trends that might never have been without the Holocaust.