1.   Companies making products for the Internet bucked the trend and held up well in the fourth quarter.

2.   Though initial offerings in a handful of years did buck this trend, they did so by tiny amounts.

3.   Unemployment in the area has bucked the trend by falling over the last month.

4.   While other newspapers are losing circulation, we are bucking the trend.

5.   Only Arsenal have bucked this trend.

6.   Here, an impressive local candidate, Coun.

7.   Unemployment in the North-East has bucked national trends by falling this month.

8.   The report, called Her Share of Misfortune and written by the ASH working group on women and smoking, recommends a number of measures to buck the trend.

9.   THE recession may still be biting, but video games company Nintendo continues to buck the trend.

10.   Among major players, the resurgent Apple Computer Inc. has bucked the trend with growing sales, earnings and profit margins.