71.   After two grim years of defying the national trend toward fewer murders, Phoenix finally is headed in the right direction.

72.   All of this reflects not only a trend toward high-end, cutting-edge materials, but a new idea of what the American kitchen has become.

73.   Brides here are forming a trend toward spring and fall weddings.

74.   British legislators, meantime, are debating proposed new rules that would curb the trend toward exclusive contracts for broadcasting U.K. sports events.

75.   Bruce said he had not been hurt by the trend toward lighter eating.

76.   Burkett finds encouragement in a growing trend toward employer-sponsored health plans that give nonparents as much money as parents to buy coverage on the open market.

77.   Briones agreed that providing computer hookups for the tenants is simply common sense given current trends toward automation of residences.

78.   But analysts said this reflected a trend toward lower prices for corporate insurance and did not suggest a company in trouble.

79.   But he conceded that it was difficult to make points about lead-ins when the overall ratings numbers continued to show a trend toward Leno.

80.   But can this trend toward bigness continue into the next century?