21.   But there is a disturbing trend among firms that are building computerized telephony systems.

22.   By increasing the bonus part of its payroll, IBM joins a growing trend among corporations.

23.   Cambre said the current trend among gold producers to hedge against weaker gold prices will hurt the industry in the long term.

24.   Company officials said the increase reflects a trend among mutual fund companies to use larger service providers.

25.   Coed sleepovers are not the norm, indeed not even a trend among preteens.

26.   Davis said there is a growing trend among independent producers to make low-budget films in the hopes they will hit the mark among audiences.

27.   Do we see a trend among these players?

28.   Earlier studies showed similar trends among Japanese-Americans.

29.   Hank Sheinkopf, a strategist for McCall, said the governor had made a push for labor backing to offset the trend among suburbanites to vote increasingly Democratic.