That's pretty good. It's slightly softer, but it's just a continuation of the trend.

Jim Shabi

Everyone's trying to put a housing angle on almost any investment trend.

John Caldwell

Bonds will find it hard to rise today. The fundamental trend that the economy is recovering has not changed.

Makoto Yamashita

January has emerged as almost a second Christmas, with gift cards, sales, etc. It's a new trend.

Brad Goldberg

The trend you're seeing now is a package of services. The trick is not necessarily getting as many sales of just the commoditized hosting plans as possible, but getting as many customers that are buying multiple services. That's the real key to growing.

Barbara Branaman

We are moving toward an economy that is less and less productive, absolute rigidity in the labor market, an administrative centralism that breaks with the trend of recent years.

Alberto Franceschi

We could be looking at the mirror image of what happened in April of last year, where we got above the 50-day and 200-day averages and then the trend turned up. The risk of rolling the other way is the opposite [of that action].

Richard Suttmeier

Enough is enough. For too long these abstinence-only programs have operated without a hint of oversight. At least at the state level, this trend is changing, and public health officials couldn't be more pleased.

James Wagoner

This is a continuation of a trend of expansion of existing investments in SA, and will hopefully mark the start of a real upward trend in foreign direct investment.

Reg Rumney

It's colliding head-on with a demographic trend in that now you have the baby boomers. The average Harley customer is 46-years-old -- my age -- and they didn't have the money or the time to ride a motorcycle back in the '70s. So there's this nostalgia for the freedom and the rebellion of that era.

Orvel Wilson

Until we get more of an adjustment on the expectations of the U.S. markets and until we see more of a trend coming out of the United States, this is how it will continue to be (for Latin stocks).

David Chon

The trend is very very strong -- you don't want to stand in the way of it at the moment.

Lee Ferridge

As Japanese companies can no longer absorb the entire negative impact of rising basic material prices with revenue growth, corporate profit trend will slow down further going forward.

Junichi Makino

I pretty much liked everything about these results. They were above expectations. The good performance of businesses such as retail banking and equity derivatives doesn't reverse that quickly, so the trend should continue in the first quarter at least.

Karim Bertoni

The overall trend is for more children to be home alone.

Jody Gravelin

I don't know that we'll see those high prices again for the foreseeable future, and we're into a sideways price trend now. Though prices are higher than in early 2003, they're definitely down to much more manageable levels.

Frank Lesh

The trend in the United States is to provide, under one roof, multiple services and products for cancer patients, ... Centers that don't fit that model probably won't exist.

Bill Jordan

On the Treasure Coast, while prices are still trending higher, we have had three consecutive months in the $260,000-to-$270,000 range. We might be catching our breath a bit before we look to go higher.

Jim Sahnger

I think the trend in this bracket is big-scoring posts. It seems to be the thing to have. I'm glad we have two of them (juniors Brooke Smith and Kristen Newlin).

Tara Vanderveer

Investors are sitting on profits in Mexico and are taking them now, given the nervousness in Argentina. I do not think this signals a fundamental change in the long-term trend in Mexico.

Damian Fraser

It's a trend that we really need to check.

Jack Rogers

The economy is on a downward trend overall as consumption, investment and construction all remain in a slump, while exports are showing slowing growth.

Park Seung

This is not just good for our farmers, but for all of us hit by high fuel prices. Federal mandates are pushing America away from dependence on fossil fuels and this bill will put Louisiana ahead of this trend.

Ronnie Anderson

The trend will be a stronger yen through to the end of this month. Strong stocks are drawing flows of overseas money into Japanese assets.

Osamu Takashima

Behind these monthly fluctuations, mortgage lending is on a stable trend, though not as high as 2004 levels.

David Dooks

CVRD is investing in projects such as nickel to diversify its portfolio, as we see a trend where large miners are investing in non-ferrous commodities... as prices are high and stocks are low due to an increase in demand, pushed mostly by China.

Pedro Galdi

It is difficult to know what is happening -- it may be profit-taking, but it is certainly not a trend reversal.

Robin Bhar

We are seeing a clear trend emerging where people are putting more in their basket on their average visit to the Warehouse.

Ian Morrice

Eventually, the market should resume its upward trend.

Carlos Samano

The third trend is the resurgence of clean coal. And that's being driven by two things: technological leaps in advanced coal technologies and the realization that we need to rely more on domestic resources for our energy rather than rely on imported energy.

Jim Sims

Sugar has been in a strong up-trend for some time now.

Chris Kraft

The trend is due to not eating properly or exercising.

Gail Buck

There is not one trend, not one kind of taste happening, and that's a good thing. That is not to say there was a shortage of newness in colors, ornament, subtle details.

Robert W. Burke

There is an unstoppable trend towards digital downloading of content.

Phil Harrison

It's healthy for a market trending higher to take a pause, things don't go into the sky forever.

Kevin Kruszenski

It is our target to push for an ecological revolution in coal-to-power generation with this trend-setting big project.

Harry Roels

I don't think that allowing employees to take naps is an indication of employers providing more fringe benefits. It speaks to a larger trend. We've been working more and sleeping less for years, and that trend is not going anywhere.

Arshad Chowdhury

The economy is on a recovery trend, which was partly behind a historical election victory for Koizumi. This victory will make it easier for him to push forward needed reforms.

Naoki Iizuka

Our research is part of a larger trend where researchers are seeking to replace older 'ablative' surgical techniques. These old methods, while bringing relief from a variety of debilitating diseases, also permanently destroy nerve circuits. Our hope is to use non-destructive procedures like DBS as a therapeutic approach for these devastating disorders.

Suzanne Haber

[Oddly, for a group so enamored of patterns, local change-ringers fail to see Houston's ascension as part of a larger trend.] It's chance that we all ended with them, ... Individuals got interested in bells and decided this was what they wanted for their churches.

David Graves

People will probably find it hard to buy bonds ahead of the consumer-prices report. A strong trend of rising core prices will probably encourage people to reduce their bond holdings.

Katsutoshi Inadome

Two important profit drivers, namely cost cuts and loan loss provisions, are faltering, and that is a trend to watch for the whole banking sector.

Pieter Wind

Yesterday's reaction was exaggerated. The trend is on the rise. Advanced Micro figures confirm it.

Niccolo Pini

What did this person become famous for? ... We have programs at the moment that follow a trend that contradicts the traditions and family structure of Turkey, which is a country with a 98 percent Muslim population. I am worried about this.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

I identified that as my weakness and so I wanted to put that right. I really putted well today and that certainly hasn't been the trend this year.

Trevor Immelman

You see this trend a lot in the film industry, where talented young directors are discovered by the industry, which then puts a bunch of money in their hands and they end up making a lot of junk — basically a bunch of eye candy that ends up looking like a really good video game on the screen.

Christopher Sharrett

We had gold and avocado and copper-toned appliances and we were so inundated with that color. You had appliances that outlasted the trend.

Barbara Richardson

While we look for the Fed to pause in June, we expect continued above-trend growth and inflation concerns will lead to further tightening (to 5.5%) in the second half of the year.

Michelle Girard

Falling appetite for debt among the top 500 corporate segment is now a two-year trend.

Paul Dowling

While people are trying to price in the end of the rate hike cycle, it's a bit premature to do that. In yields, the trend is up at the moment.

John Wraith

Most of the time the suspects are leaving the scene. All the officer has to do is get out of the way and you're not in any danger. That's what the trend is in the major cities.

Geoffrey Alpert

Industry sales have held up better than expected despite a backdrop of economic uncertainty, and we think this trend will characterize all of 2001.

Bill Lovejoy

Shorter notes are difficult to buy compared with longer debt at the moment. The trend continues for a flattening curve.

Masato Fukasaku

We see a big upward trend in energy prices, but without that, the inflation rate is going down. The ECB looks at the headline figure, and as long as it's above 2 percent, it's a reason to increase rates.

Matthias Rubisch

The fact the rand is firming has to do with the general trend with supportive commodity prices - also we are seeing some Japanese investments back into emerging markets.

Abah Ofon

The kids have bought into the program and believe in what they are doing. Most of them have been starting for two years or more, and nothing is a better team teacher than experience in football. The last two years we've made positive strides, so hopefully, this trend will continue.

Bob Holmes

The converged device market is growing at more than 60 percent a year. This realignment positions the handheld team to more clearly focus on navigating this fast-paced market while PSG continues to accelerate its trend of profitable growth.

Todd Bradley

Folks 'get' the idea of a potential mania on flat panel televisions and that Corning may be one of the few successful large cap ways to play the trend.

Pip Coburn

But then the decline in home sales is more interesting. Not from a data point of view, but the point is, it reflects a greater trend. I think this is going to be more of a focus for 2006.

Naomi Fink

I don't predict prices, but I think it will definitely be a downward trend.

Red Cavaney

You're going to go through a rough patch through the next six to 12 months. Inflation is going to be boosted by higher oil prices. There is a clear upward trend.

George Buckley

They gave us some chances with some errors and stuff, and we were fortunate to have some good, key hits there in the middle innings. In the last two games we have done well (hitting). We've done much better, so we're hoping that's a trend and we'll work hard and hope that that hitting gets contagious.

Bob Mccreary

There's very strong encouragement for Chinese banks to welcome in a foreign investor taking a stake and bringing in know-how. We'll see that trend continuing throughout this year.

Roger Denny

The rising influence of celebrities and the focus on entertaining among the Generation X set is a positive trend for the industry. There's plenty of opportunity ahead for manufacturers and retailers who recognize and leverage today's trends in entertaining.

Peter Greene

He's setting a trend right now, and I know there are some little kids out here who might be interested in learning more about the sport.

Paul Harrington

There is always a decided risk in fluctuations of financial markets, and fluctuations in exchange rates, as well. What happened on Friday may be a trend or it may be a temporary thing, but the main focus of the G-24 is on the outlook for the world economy.

Carlos Saito

Motorola's growth in sales has continued to accelerate, and our earnings are on an improving trend. We are especially pleased by the results in our new Broadband Communications Sector, which was formed after the merger with General Instrument, the improvements in our network systems business, and the sequential growth in quarterly earnings for semiconductors.

Robert Growney

The economy is continuing to run at a strong pace in the third quarter. The underlying trend in durable goods orders is positive and the housing market continues to run strong.

Dean Maki

Sentiment going forward is cautious, which seems to be a trend in this economic recovery cycle, but capital spending plans are firm, indicating that companies are continuing to push ahead in business activity despite a cautious stance.

Mamoru Yamazaki

They've managed to stay ahead of this wellness trend that could have caused a huge backlash with people just stopping eating chips period.

Christopher Meeker

Frankly, I would say that the trend of ongoing pressure from Asia isn't a particular surprise. The great percentage of the impact from Asia has probably already been felt in Boeing's stock price, but there will be some residual delay associated with earnings.

Howard Rubel

As long as the economy is good, it's unlikely in my view that we'll see a downward trend.

Randy Perreira

It's part of a broader trend. Nationwide there are markets that have a ways to go, especially in the Midwest. But we're much closer to the end of the cycle than the peak. Now we're watching how it plays out -- whether it's going to smash into a wall or just level off for a while.

John Karevoll

We didn't want a hybrid of the old stuff. The old records were very dense musically. Now there's a trend towards minimalist sound. That's the main thing.

Chris Stein

The underlying trend is a bit sideways.

Kevin Logan

The movement to notebooks for people who are largely not mobile workers and were doing it because of lower heat and smaller space requirements, that part of the trend flattened out a bit as we got to very small form factor desktops and LCD monitors becoming more affordable.

Peter Sutherland

The trend has been good. The number of people killed and explosions decreased significantly during the ceasefire, but other violence, like abductions, increased.

Sudip Pathak

The trend of Japan's economic recovery won't stop. The central bank seems to become increasingly confident that it can change policy around the middle of 2006.

Masaaki Kanno

Manufacturers are beginning to recognize the fact that toll-free telephone support is extremely expensive. The trend in the industry is to get away from expensive telephone support and make investments in online support.

Richard Dean

It's part of the globalization trend.

John Matheson

I can't speak for what's going on at the Coast yet, because I'm not there yet, but I do know that from what I do know the same kind of trend is happening, and the country needs to be united at this time. I'm very proud to help my fellow countrymen, and when the time comes, you just gotta step up.

Aaron Gelobter

I'd hesitate to call it a trend.

Greg Morgan

The consumer spending figures are better that what we were expecting... The October revision is important and it shows the trend in the fourth quarter is positive.

David Naude

I had a few options, but I just thought in my heart this is where I wanted to be, because the trend hadn't been going uphill.

Bobby Labonte

A growing trend is called safe havens. These are cooperative agreements between shelters for women and shelters for animals.

Nancy Perry

Ten years ago they were relatively easy to challenge and the judge had very, very wide discretion whether to enforce them. Today, the national trend is, 'Baby, if you sign it, we will hold you to it.

John Mayoue

Despite everything, it's extremely difficult to dislodge Tom DeLay in a district with such a strong Republican base and a strong, straight-ticket Republican voting trend.

Ted Delisi

It's a trend that started back in the late '90s that started with Penn State. Penn State started offering early, and kids started committing.

Mike Farrell

It's a broad trend. Services as a whole is a larger umbrella trend and managed services underneath it.

Christina Richmond

We commend our employees who ramped up production quickly to meet strong demand for the launch of the Ridgeline without compromising quality or service. We congratulate Honda on this valuable designation by Motor Trend magazine.

Tim Myers

We've been on a downward trend for births since 1981, except for the last two years. Hopefully, that has bottomed out and the trend will reverse.

Richard Rathge

Yesterday, you had a relief rally because the price of oil dropped so much, but I'm not sure how much of a factor that's going to be in the short-term. Prices are still near $40 a barrel, and the trend for the time being is up.

Brian Bensch

One may view the past record very innocently -- as mistakes made, sloppiness, management problems on the part of the company, ... Or one may look take it much differently, and see a more sinister trend.

Michael Friedman

We lost hundreds of thousands of packages overnight. We anticipate that trend would continue without an extension or any kind of guarantee that there won't be a job action.

Gina Ellrich

We believe the rate has peaked already. Bank Indonesia will want to make sure that inflation is on a definite down-trend before they cut.

Fauzi Ichsan

In 2005, American consumers spent all their disposable income and also depleted their savings, resulting in a negative personal savings rate for the first time in decades. Chase wants to help reverse this trend for future generations. One important way to do that is to teach children about saving as soon as they are old enough to understand the basics of money.

Michael Cleary

There's the growth of bandwidth, and that is a fundamentally positive trend for us, because it allows us to deliver better and better experiences.

Rob Glaser

I wouldn't be surprised to see (the Dow) trend lower because markets don't trend up in a time of rising interest rates.

Grace Fey

Given the declining trend in net foreign purchases of the past five months, we doubt whether these would be sufficient in covering the $55.8 billion trade deficit, ... In that case, markets should expect intensifying damage for the dollar.

Ashraf Laidi

We took this whole vertical integration plan very seriously. There are some fundamental changes happening in our business, including a short-term shift in attitudes, a mid-term shift in technology and the long-term trend is a significant shift in who is buying the room. We know we now have to provide options to fill those shifts.

Jim Abrahamson

I've been light on personal computer stocks for some time because of the secular trend which I think is negative towards the PC vendors. I believe units will continue to grow worldwide at about 15 percent per year, but average selling prices, now with the advent of the $200 and $300 box, are stopping like stones, and I don't see that changing anytime soon.

Paul Meeks

We're sort of bucking the trend a little bit.

Paul Souza

Looking at every shock we have sustained since World War I, the trend has been to fall, then rally, and then move on to higher highs.

Robert Stovall

With the Fed expected to go another 25 basis points on Wednesday and still-tame inflation reports, we are just seeing more of the same flattening trend.

Ann Hurley

UK Plc feels it has gone as far as it can in accommodating tax rises that have weakened our international competitive position. The trend we now want to see is a downward one not an upward one.

John Cridland

Once things get through the day-to-day digestion period, broadly speaking the market is still pretty good, ... The trend to lower energy erases some of the fears of how long consumers can hold up. It gives the market enough to fear but sets us up for gradual appreciation going into year-end.

Jack Caffrey

If you look at the trend in Internet media, it's all about giving consumers control. You don't have to be unsatisfied by your local radio. You can find someone out there who's putting out what you want to hear.

Robert Niles

Due to the prolonged flatness to slight inversion in the yield curve, the company is focused on stabilizing our net interest margin, controlling expense growth and maximizing generation of capital. We are disappointed that operating/cash earnings per share were lower than a year ago, but are hopeful this trend will change by the second half of 2006.

Jay Sidhu

Many exploration projects require a gold price of $350 or higher to be profitable, and I believe that larger companies will look to grow through acquisitions of other smaller companies which are making money, have mines, and ongoing projects. The trend will continue.

Amaury De Barros Conti

We'll probably trend a little bit lower [in the next couple of weeks]. A lot of the gains have been on positive comments made by companies like Dell and IBM, but I think a lot of this reflects market-share shifts rather than a recovery in the overall market.

Adam Adelman

Developed countries should be aware that textile integration is an inevitable trend and to have quotas is not correct.

Bo Xilai

This is a continuation of the trend that's been in place for the past couple of years. Strength in the company's core growth vehicles, and the potential resolution of the Shop at Home problem, bolster our enthusiasm for the SSP growth story.

Peter Appert

I'm not looking for quite the same steep declines this year, but early August has already been weak and we are definitely trending a lot lower for the period. You're not likely to see another sustained upturn until the end of the year.

Jeffrey Hirsch

If this trend continues throughout the remainder of the fourth quarter 2005 and into next year, it would signify a solid victory in the music industry's efforts against illegal music file sharing in the U.S..

Russ Crupnick

It's been a trend, but it was really bad this time around. It will definitely affect how much work we're able to do.

George Douglas

It's a pullback in commodities as well as a lack of data to fuel any sort of direction, and I think you're just seeing the continuation of a very short-term trend here.

Ted Gould

If you look at trends through 2005, we had record (fuel) prices, but numbers were also up for travel. We expect this trend to continue. Fuel frequently is a small part of a family's budget.

Nicole Niemi

There is really a trend of consolidation across many, many industries and geographies, ... The pipeline is full, and I think we'll see a lot of transactions in the next few months.

Frank Aquila

There's a whole outdoor living trend. If it has a verb in it, you can do it outside - exercising, cooking, dining, entertaining and now working in the outdoor office. If we can do it outside, we're outside.

Susan Mccoy

There is a certain amount of coercion that is implied. My general reaction is (this is) a disturbing trend that I was not aware of.

Assemblywoman Sheila Leslie

They've been a little sluggish at practice. They were sluggish today. That's been a little trend. So, we'll see. The wear and tear of the season is gaining on us. We've got to overcome it.

Leslie Davis

If the trend with pre-retirees continues, the sheer size of the 77 million baby boomer population, coupled with impending postage increases, will drive up the government's costs to issue paper checks exponentially.

Dick Gregg

All commodities have had a very, very strong run. A lot of people were waiting for some kind of correction. In the long term there is still an upward trend.

Mark Mathias

I think some in the environmental community won't be all that warm and fuzzy about [coal-fired ethanol]. It's fair to say there's a trend away from natural gas, but coal is just one approach. Other technologies are part of the mix, too.

Bob Dinneen

In my work as an educator in the past 15 years, what I see is a trend: At one point, we were really focused on girls, and they were making strides. What I see now is that there is very little focus on girls.

Donna Johnson

The percentage of women who have been screened is probably somewhere between 34 and 61 per cent, and this is too low. However, breast cancer death rates have been declining and screening is one reason for this downward trend.

Heather Logan

The trend toward project-based operations is gathering momentum. Since IFS is one of the few companies offering a comprehensive, completely integrated, project-based solution, the company is well positioned to support enterprises in their transition toward the Project Economy.

Joshua Greenbaum

People are planning and making decisions without us. We're trying to reverse that trend. We must keep the Katrina issue in the national debate. We're concerned that Dr. King's legacy of struggle and fighting for justice will be forgotten, if we don't carry on the work.

Mtangulizi Sanyika

The auction result was disappointing and the market trend is already weak. Investors are staying on the sidelines and not buying.

Osamu Tamada

Today's worker needs to stay abreast of the off-shoring trend and develop marketable skills that can't easily be off-shored, such as team management and leadership skills.

Christine Tanner

It's the new trend. We were green-lit when 'Lost' came out. It had its big opening night. And I think probably all around town, a number of [serialized] shows were green-lit. And like everything else in this industry, I think that many will try, and most will fail, and a few will succeed.

Paul Scheuring

You have a transition to a warming trend. Because it's switched to warmer weather, we've seen the weather markets sell off and of course, the natural-gas markets sell off as well.

Agbeli Ameko

The choppy trend of the furniture industry continues.

Keith Hughes

December's holiday travel was strong, and we continued our trend of double-digit year-over-year improvement in both revenue per available seat mile (RASM) and yield for the east and west networks. We are also especially proud of the US Airways team for delivering outstanding customer service to over 2.4 million customers during the recent holiday travel season.

Scott Kirby

Today, we're selling $2 billion in chicken, and that's significantly up from a few years ago. We believe this trend will continue so we're putting a stronger focus on chicken rather than beef but its not at the expense of beef, rather incremental to it.

Ralph Alvarez

Amid the continued recovery of corporate activity, which reduces anxiety about job security, Japanese consumers seem to be increasingly willing to spend more, and that trend is most likely to be sustained going forward.

Taro Saito

Overall, the data for the capital goods sector remains somewhat erratic, but the underlying trend remains upward.

David Resler

Despite our belief that crude prices will slowly trend down over the remainder of the year, further escalation in the U.N.-Iran standoff could quite conceivably send oil to a new record above $70.

Matthew Parry

It looks like a bubble, but the underlying trend is too powerful to ignore.

Henry Blodget

Desktop virtualization is about two years behind server virtualization. It's a completely different trend. While server virtualization is about saving money and consolidation, on the desktop it's much more about isolation, about being able to do different things on the same machine.

Tom Bittman

AT&T has been performing poorly all along and in a slowing economy we can expect that trend to continue.

Drake Johnstone

I've noticed since 2005 there's been a downward trend in the number of reported offenses, and hopefully with a renewed energy and renewed excitement about the direction the department will go, we're on a great foundation, we'll be able to reduce that number even further.

William Mcmanus

Average wages are now growing at about the same level of inflation. And as the economy continues to expand, we expect this trend to continue to improve.

Tom Potiowsky

In the near term Budget would be the key to the direction of the market. As long as the Nifty does not close below 3000 levels, the bullish trend technically is intact.

Ashu Kakkar

The main board is still on a downward trend.

Johnny Lee

Of the population we work with, we almost reversed that trend with an 83 percent success rate.

John Gailer

If the trend with pre-retirees continues, the sheer size of the 77 million baby boomer population -- coupled with impending postage increases -- will drive up the government's costs to issue paper checks exponentially... and taxpayers will bear the burden.

Dick Gregg

Our studies indicate that the trend that is the defining characteristic of human evolution--the growth of brain size and complexity--is likely still going on. Meanwhile, our environment and the skills we need to survive in it are changing faster then we ever imagined. I would expect the human brain, which has done well by us so far, will continue to adapt to those changes.

Bruce T. Lahn

Providing a Windows solution, especially to a developer audience, is a must-have. There are more and more applications that are specifically written to the Windows platform and I think we are seeing an increasing trend where developers will actually have environments that run on both Windows and Unix.

John Enright

The rating agency actions have reinforced a message to investors that fiscal consolidation in both countries is a trend and will drive asset prices higher. So markets are reacting to this.

Tim Condon

While one should never draw definite conclusions from any one quarter's results, the downward trend in short term performance over the last six months will probably continue through the end of 2000 as the effects of public market volatility makes its way through to the private markets.

Jesse Reyes

The TV shows and magazines both confirm and propel the trend. With the economy improving, and people making more money, it feels like they're beginning to spend more than they have in the past couple of years.

Michael Atmore

We are thrilled to have Carmen Electra join the Max Factor family of spokespeople, ... Carmen embodies the glamour and spirit of the Brand and will speak to our trend-conscious consumer target in a dynamic way.

Anne Martin

We've never had a show of this caliber. Motor Trend has national recognition.

Mark Rapin

People were worried about how the auction would go, but with the lengthening of the index at the end of the month and the global flattening trend, investors just didn't want to stay away. That enticed investors.

Tomoya Masanao

Integrated security will absolutely be a trend. In fact, I would go so far as to argue that if you don't have integrated security inside the next three years, you will be relegated to commodity infrastructure competition.

Joel Conover

The markets started off strong in the morning but the trend later in the day indicates that shares aren't likely to run up sharply soon.

Shahina Mukadam

Nasdaq marks the trend and the market here falls because there is no final buyer. The situation may change when stocks get really cheap and bottom-fishing starts.

Roberto Dotta

Our most important destination, Spain, is currently benefiting most strongly from this trend.

Michael Frenzel

That was the trend. Marion County hired its first paid firefighter in 1979.

Heather Danenhower

The companies' sentiment on the global market outlook appears to have suddenly turned pessimistic. A long recovery trend in their share prices continuing since 2002 could now have been snapped.

Yoshihisa Miyamoto

That seems to be the trend most of the way around the globe, apart from Asia where there is a lot of BitTorrent. BitTorrent traffic levels are in decline.

Andrew Parker

Managers aren't doing the wrong things - the market has changed. I don't care how good a manager is - if the trend changes, he's going to look bad.

Sheldon Jacob

I think everyone's trying to be the hero to call the end of the trend, but I think this could be a very long-term substantial beneficial trend for investors, to stay long energy.

Robert Lutts

Smell or fragrances have traditionally been a woman's domain, but men are now using colognes, candles and room sprays. The trend for room scents is definitely spreading, where in the past, it wasn't.

Alan R. Hirsch

We have occasional hot spots, but that does not constitute a trend, ... The crime rate would be good for a week or two, then gone.

David Hopkins

This again highlights a disturbing trend in the apathy of the public towards drink-driving.

Dennis Hayes

We are worried that this trend will not allow us to fully support the Pakistan Red Crescent's ongoing relief operation to initially assist tens of thousands of families over the next four months.

Susan Johnson

The major trend in the market over the last couple of weeks has been uncertainty. Uncertainty about the Fed, uncertainty about earnings, and we're seeing a continuation of that today.

Francis Gannon

This shows the increase in spending is not due to a one-off factor. We are seeing consumers becoming more and more confident about the future economic trend.

Masaaki Kanno

The trend toward feature stars heading into TV is cyclical.

Michael Schneider

Our company has been successful in anticipating this trend, and now has market-leading positions in Poland and Hungary as well as one of the largest industrial platforms in the Czech Republic.

Walt Rakowich

We did not make the kind of leapfrog improvement we need to. While I wasn't ecstatic, I'm pleased with the trend lines.

Clayton Wilcox

The latest ANZ job advertisements data suggest that there will be no improvement in the labor market over the next few months, with little prospect of significant growth in employment and with the unemployment rate likely to trend higher.

Tony Pearson

This is really going to be the next big food trend in the years to come.

Nathan Coyle

And it's trending quickly upward. In so many sets, people are getting a hybrid to replace their 3 and 4 iron.

Derrick Bell

The trend is improving with relation to safety on the trails.

Wendy Gibson

I think this is a one-day pause. I'd be really surprised if this was all there is to this rally. .. . I don't see anything in the tape today that leads me to think this trend should be over.

Philip Dow

The Endangered Species Act is in desperate need of an update, ... It has hurt species recovery by leading to the trend we all know as 'shoot, shovel and shut up.' And it has hurt family farmers and ranchers by taking their property away.

Richard Pombo

It's clear the upward trend in German orders is still extremely strong. It's still based on foreign demand, but over time that's likely to spill over into domestic demand.

Neville Hill

The stock market trend is surely up and the gains in the first three days this week have wiped out the earlier correction. If the fund flow continues then the rally will carry on, or else we could see a consolidation.

Ajit Sanghvi

It is a national trend, which is to engage in politics of personal destruction. It takes preference over issues.

Larry Hufford

We're seeing some investors testing the tech waters, but the urge to sell after slight rises is extremely strong. This trend is unlikely to change soon given uncertainty over the high-tech profit outlook.

Yoshihisa Okamoto

I think what you're seeing today is a trend that you're going to continue to see through the end of the year: a rotational shift out of some of the big tech gainers, particularly the [semiconductors], as well as other small-caps, and into the less exciting stocks that haven't participated as much this year.

John Shields

A couple of years ago I would have thought that business investment would grow pretty strongly. That hasn't been the case due to a combination of more regulation and taxes, lower-cost countries and pensions and I don't see that changing. It's certainly hard to see business investment recovering enough to get the economy growing above trend.

Michael Saunders

My expectation is the general trend of the next few quarters is for profit growth rates to come down, and it will start by having companies send out that message.

Dorsey Farr

It's going to take a lot more than one month to convince me we are in a worrisome trend.

David Resler

We're extremely pleased to have Paul as our general manager for the World Championship. We've been fortunate to be able to fill our management roles with elite members of the hockey community for many years and Paul no doubt continues that trend.

Dave Ogrean

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

Dan Quayle

This is a proper verdict that fits with the global trend.

Robin Lee

I know sex, football and politics was big last time. But this time, if there is a trend, then it's definitely political.

Dieter Kosslick

The 'card phone' is another trial to overcome the design challenges to create such a small and thin phone and create a new trend. After this model, we will introduce more card phones.

Juha Park

Strong economic indicators will reinforce the view the Fed will continue raising rates. The dollar-bullish trend will likely continue this week.

Takehiko Jimbo

If the trend with pre-retires continues, the sheer size of the 77 million baby boomer population, coupled with impending postage increases, will drive up the government's costs to issue paper checks exponentially. Taxpayers will bear the burden.

Dick Gregg

We're a net creditor in terms of foreign direct investment. We're seeing that trend for sure. There's a lot more activity occurring by Canadian companies.

Gilles Rheaume

I putted really well, which hasn't been the trend lately, ... I had the last two weeks off and focused a lot on my putting.

Trevor Immelman

Our view is that we get above-trend growth and that will cause the Fed to raise rates to 5 percent.

Amitabh Arora

But that's just the trend with malls. Malls lose stores and they gain stores and in 2006 we have some great things happening.

Jana Kuner

If there's one trend that's all-encompassing, it's trading up. We all want the best that money can buy.

Joan Steuer

Money is gathering into the real-estate business. The trend will help boost profits of property companies and banks.

Hideaki Kurimoto