Oracle continues to be a margin expansion story and we expect that trend to continue this quarter. We expect the increased operating leverage to come in the form of lower sales and marketing expenses.

Melissa Eisenstat

Given the still relatively robust domestic demand and an anticipated pick-up in fixed investment spending, the trade balance should continue to trend weaker.

Kevin Lings

It is a long-term trend. Over the past 30 years, the median wage has grown about 9 or 10 percent.

Mark Weisbrot

I believe it's a positive. I think it's a trend that will dominate in the long run. It will be prevalent all over. Hopefully we'll have a statewide ban. That will help everybody.

Jim Sensenbrenner

The trend for firm longer bonds and weak shorter debt will continue this month. Investors feel safer buying bonds on slumping stocks.

Yoshihiro Gake

Steel and metal companies are on a long-term rising trend. Demand will continue to increase.

Tomokatsu Mori

The number just confirms the slowing growth trend that has been unfolding in the housing market, although the numbers are still at historically strong levels.

Ronald Simpson

There's consensus the market will keep an upside trend in the long run. The focus is how quickly the key index can top 1,300 and after that it may head north more easily.

Lu Chengde

Under Chairman Greenspan, monetary policy has become increasingly transparent to the public and the financial markets, a trend that I strongly support.

Ben S. Bernanke

We want to be a trend setter in the marketplace and leverage the model for other ministries to have their own text messaging services.

Rodney Sampson

Over the last 12 months you can see a steadily increasing trend. I don't think it's been below $5 since last November. It's supply and demand across North America, but certainly you can't downplay the short-term impact of the recent hurricanes in the Gulf Coast.

Gary Newcombe

I think it will be the start of a trend.

Joe Mcinerney

There is definitely a trend among employers to provide lower ill-health benefits.

Kevin Newman

This is the first negative trend line we have had in anything since accountability began.

Leslie Jacobs

The trend from defined-benefit to defined-contribution plans has not come because employees have wanted to take on that risk. It's because employers have wanted to get rid of that risk.

Jack Vanderhei

Our concepts for the Hilton are innovative and will be trend-setting in the hospitality industry. We look forward to providing the Hilton property with a unique and recognizable uniform program that will truly set them apart in an increasingly competitive industry.

Judy Anderson

The trend is going in the right direction.

Ted Smyth

Services are the present and future development trend for enterprise software. We've all agreed to speak the lingua franca of services. This is immensely important to customers; just as HTML enabled the explosion of the Web, SOA is doing the same for business applications.

Andrew Leigh

If you look at the data, you will see sales of hybrid cars have doubled every year since they were introduced in 1999 in the U.S., and we just see that trend continuing. We want to be the company that hybrid car owners think of when it's time to buy their auto insurance.

Jennifer Wislocki

This is pretty much what we expected based on market research and conversations with executives from ECA member companies. It's good news, but it's difficult to ascertain whether it is a trend. We had a strong January in 2004 before the index went downhill, and we had a weak start last year before a sustained rebound that began around June.

Bob Willis

We're going to see no enormous change in trend. Ahead of the upcoming [earnings] reporting season, the market mood is going to remain apprehensive.

George Hodgson

The U.S. dollar trend is going to rise through the end of the first quarter of 2006. Until it becomes clear the Fed is finished tightening rates, I don't think we will see a change in the trend.

Richard Grace

What is the ultimate profitability? If you have any negative trend in a major component of the business, it's going to be difficult to find buyers for the stocks.

Steve Weinstein

If the City Council does not radically alter the trend in housing, then Davis in 2020 will become a much more exclusive community and ... a larger percentage of its workforce than today will be living elsewhere. ... And that, in particular, if we do not require a good portion of the new houses to be permanently affordable, then while we may have smaller homes, they will be very expensive homes.

David Thompson

Metals are rising very fast, but this bullish trend should stay during the first half of the year.

Hiroyuki Kitakata

The trend to travel rods has risen steadily since they were introduced. They now comprise about 60 percent of our sales. A travel rod is a great choice for the plug caster who might want to take a fly rod on a big trip, but doesn't want to go overboard in gearing up. You toss the tube in the the duffle and there it is ready to go when the circumstances are right.

Dave Hayward

It is a real increase in head count and percentages, and it has been trending upwards every year since 1999.

Richard Bayer

We continue to be pretty bullish about the trend this holiday season. I didn't see any shopping mall specialty stores that had the kind of traffic we did, ... It's certainly a testament to what the brand stands for.

Richard Schulze

The trend has not changed in that a recovery in corporate profits is leading to rises in capital spending.

Takumi Tsunoda

Through our meeting in Italy, it was clear Trend USA is a company ideally suited to take advantage of the unmatched accessibility Miami-Dade offers. As with many other foreign companies that have decided to establish headquarter operations here, Miami-Dade will be the perfect location for Trend to continue their success.

Frank R. Nero

The trend in the last couple of years has been a decline in unemployment. I'm seeing certain occupational sectors showing signs of strain where they are not able to find enough workers.

Shelley Allen

Hopefully that's not a trend you want to continue to do because if you go win, loss, win, loss then you go 8-8 and your chances of making the playoffs aren't great.

Rosevelt Colvin

This remarkable development trend with the growing shortage will make China's power market, at least in the next 15 years, a huge opportunity to the international corporations in this field.

Xie Zhenhua

More generally, it looks like the long-awaited trend improvement in Australia's exports could be upon us.

Rob Henderson

In terms of market dynamics, just look at the broadband trend and the growth in the wide range of devices. I wouldn't say we're going into an era where PCs are irrelevant, and I certainly wouldn't say that to PC Magazine, but I think we're going into an era where the PC is just one of a number of important devices.

Rob Glaser

It is a legislative trend across the world. China will definitely catch up with this trend, in spite of obstacles we are confronted with now.

Li Yinhe

The September data indicate a general weakening in the job picture nationwide -- a trend we were seeing before the recent hurricanes, ... That data is consistent with the latest CEO Confidence Survey, which is also down.

Ken Goldstein

There's a trend across the country to not put out a price list and allow the buyers to determine what the value is.

Tom Jenkins

I think this is definitely a wake-up call for Intel. This is really a telling trend that AMD can compete.

Matt Sargent

Nick seems to be wrestling better and better each week. If that trend continues, he has a good chance of qualifying for state.

Tom Chicantek

[When an analyst asked whether slower growth in bad debt during the first quarter was] sort of a fluke, ... You know, this is a volatile business. You have some months that are up and some months that are down and what you've got to do is kind of look and say, 'What is the trend, and what do you feel about it?' .

Jack Bovender

Can anyone believe that today's rally suggests a change in the trend? We are not that optimistic.

Kazuyuki Naito

Price growth is on a softening trend and we continue to believe that the outlook for the housing market over the medium term is one of flat to falling prices.

George Buckley

The strong net sales increase in the first quarter is the continued reflection of our dynamic growth trend of the last year. These excellent figures will propel us towards reaching our set goals for 2006.

Hubertus Erlen

We monitor women's fashion magazines, like Vogue and W, to trend spot and see what's on the horizon. It's all about timing, and trying to predict what will be hot, and to stay ahead of the curve.

Rodney Salinas

As I read it, the president is determined not to be forced into reductions that go against the trend of events. It would be rash to predict. I am sure there will be reductions, but the number will probably stay quite high.

Jeremy Greenstock

People have said there is an integrity about me, and I think there is. I don't try to follow a trend. I have my own little path.

Sarah Brightman

The upward interest rate trend will continue because the real interest rate is still negative.

Ampon Kittiampon

The idea is that the Fed has a little more work to do, but inflation doesn't look to be a problem and the economy is showing trend-level growth.

William Hornbarger

The underlying rise in mortgage lending was close to trend in January, suggesting stronger growth towards the end of 2005 may not have established a sustained upturn in lending.

David Dooks

We're seeing some evidence of some slowing in the economy, which is a good thing, but we need a little longer time to call it a trend. And I think that is what the Fed is watching too.

Bob Dickey

Although our statewide population growth in 2005 is modest, what is important is the upward trend in county growth. Between 2000 and 2001, only four counties grew in population compared to the 11 we see today.

Richard Rathge

We characterize this trend as the 'growing operational gap' between the level of IT staffing and the requirements their companies are placing on their infrastructure, particularly their networks. A solution for bridging this operational gap is for networking vendors to develop more intelligent products and features that will help boost an IT manager's operational efficiency.

Zeus Kerravala

It's definitely a growing trend. Team in Training has the model that a lot of other charity organizations are copying.

Jeff Graves

We do have a peak deployment strategy that sees more officers on the road on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. It's a continual study. If there's a change in trend and (officers) do need to re-evaluate where they need to be, they have the statistics.

Sal Basilone

The general trend is that our campaign is clearly rising at a steady, very solid pace. We are winning people over.

Felipe Calderon

Although an improvement on trend from our first quarter, our sales performance this quarter is still not at the level we know we can achieve.

George Heller

Unfortunately, this is part of an all too common trend. I think over the next year, we are going to see more closures and job losses like this.

Jay Myers

Disney's challenged the zoo world to up the ante. The trend is to be more theatrical, put storytelling in there. But they shouldn't try to go to the level of 'faux authenticity' that Disney can achieve.

James Zoltak

Sooner or later we shall achieve unanimity. Prices will keep growing. This is the hard fact. It is a world trend. As for the pace of growth, it is still to be decided on.

Vladimir Litvin

For 50 years, Americans fled the urban center. Now people are fleeing the suburbs for the urban core. That's going to be a 50- to 100-year trend. And we're right on the front of that.

Dave Wamsley

If you're an international oil company and see this trend, it must be worrying.

Yasser Elguindi

There is clearly a policy shift underway. We're talking about a bad trend; not just a cooling but a deterioration in relations.

Masha Lipman

We thought it was time to evolve the fund and keep up with the trend.

Ian Link

Consumers are choosing digital music subscription services and Samsung supports this trend with the first 4GB flash player to offer subscription capabilities.

Mark Farish

Our roads and streets are getting less safe. A lot of it's due to reckless driving, and we should be reversing that trend by having stricter enforcement.

Damien Newton

It's just a statistical correction after the very strong months before. The long-term upward trend is very strong.

Dirk Schumacher

These new operations are not likely to create enough jobs to replace the labor-intensive jobs being lost to offshore production. But the recent trend has been a slowing of the manufacturing job losses in North Carolina compared with the 1995 to 2003 time period.

Tom Dubin

There is a significant trend toward consolidating systems management features into fewer tools. Customers want to minimize the number of agents that perform overlapping functions.

David Friedlander

The new data reflect a continuation in the trend we have seen since the mid-1990s of a decreasing number of doctors leaving Canada for opportunities in other countries.

Steve Slade

Gourmet pizza is definitely a trend.

Jeremy White

In some populations, increasing restrictions on tobacco use may be another factor. And while the overall trend cannot be explained by medication use, certainly the declines in the elevated blood pressure values are partly due to better medical care.

Dr. David L. Katz

With November comparable down 8 percent and the company lowering guidance once again, Hot Topic continues to be on the wrong side of the fashion trend with no near term catalysts in sight. Hot Topic will obviously need to take deep markdowns in order to clear unwanted holiday product.

Brian Tunick

A decline in shipments following the holiday quarter is expected of mature markets, and the handheld devices market is no different. After nine consecutive quarters of year-over-year decline, many are wondering how long this trend will continue, and whether the market will see a reverse.

Ramon Llamas

That's sort of the trend in the industry.

Richard Smith

An executive wants to know where the company is and where it's going. Tactically, they still need the important numbers so they can run the business, but in general they're looking for trending information that enables them to better understand the market their company services to better determine where they should make large, long-term investments in the sales department.

Wayne Latterell

We hope to average 3,300 seats per game, which means that on different occasions we will have to have sell-outs. But I believe we'll be trending closer to 4,000 than 1,000.

Todd Speer

This is a trend going on around the country.

Roland Swenson

It's going to be a gradual warming trend overnight.

Howard Waldron

The trend on the market is still down.

Mike Viracola

It's been a trend that they compete like heck. There are not very many places where the pressure and expectations are that high.

Scot Loeffler

The highest (profit) margin business is the intellectual property business. I think there's a trend of (companies) still being involved in parks, but on a licensing basis.

James Zoltak

Linux will be integral on all IBM platforms, even the S/390. This is an evolutionary trend.

Frank Dzubeck

If you're going to succeed in growing market share, you need to have the product on the shelf, ... Our strategy is to be in stock and provide real value for consumers. The last thing we want to do is pass up an opportunity  to take advantage of a trend we see taking place in our stores.

Richard Schulze

We've expected existing home sales to weaken for some time. It does appear that we're starting to see that trend manifest itself.

Gordon Kettle

The trend we're seeing is that they're realizing that more is not always better. If something goes bad for government, it's bad for SAP.

Tim Mccormick

It's risky just to sit back and wait for an upward trend in inflation to show up before we do something.

Robert Parry

It will be more like linebackers than most of us look like now. That's the trend anyway, better athletes playing golf.

Joe Durant

There's a lack of catalysts today, and so we're trending downward. I think the market has discounted a lot of the bad news, but there are still some day-to-day fears about interest rates, about the presidential election or about terrorism.

Doug Sandler

This is all the trend that says, actually folks, with a western Europe cost base you can't make money in this segment, so it is entirely logical.

Stephen Cheetham

We were almost reluctant to go that way. But we knew we needed to follow the trend. New country was beginning to cross over into rock, which was creating a new style of music, and it caught on very heavily.

Russ Suemnicht

These cases are not yet a trend of where things are going. The meatier issues are still unpredictable at this point.

Richard Dieter

It is a trend because national chains are looking at destinations. Obviously, the mystique, the uniqueness, the ambiance of the River Walk pulls them into this.

Greg Gallaspy

I would say that profitability did contract in 2005 as a result of increased competition. Many shops are working for less money but making up for it on volume and hopefully that is a trend that won't continue.

Ken Cohen

In the past our bettors have correctly predicted the outcome of television shows like American Idol, as well as world events including the Papal conclave and Presidential elections. If the betting trend continues, it could mean the end of the line for Uncle Junior or Christopher, who both have several risk factors making them vulnerable to being killed-off.

Simon Noble

The actual size of the fall in February is fairly significant. Obviously if the trend does soften in the next few months then the housing market could be losing some momentum.

Alan Castle

Inflation for August was 0.1 per cent a welcome reduction from the previous months. While increases in bus fares and oil-related increases are likely to have a negative impact in September, assuming we have no adverse weather events, food prices are likely to fall as supply increases. The trend, therefore, should be for the inflation rate to return to lower levels.Thi.

Colin Steele

The new Medicare prescription drug benefit reflects the growing trend toward preventing illnesses and better managing the health of seniors, ... It will enable people to save money and live healthier lives.

Pete Hoekstra

We'll see hopefully a nice trend.

John Mancinelli

The idea is that the Fed has a little more work to do and the economy is showing trend-level growth. A really ugly housing number could hurt consumer spending, but that hasn't been the case yet. A soft number helps the market.

William Hornbarger

The last 18 months have shown some progress for low-wage workers. But the majority of gains have been at the upper end. My guess is that the gap is going to be widening. Is everyone going to be better off? I don't think that narrowing is going to be a long-term trend.

Stephen Levy

Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.

Jeffrey Sachs

But I think the underlying trend in terms of consumer spending and overall economic spending is actually up.

Charles Lieberman

And look at the room growth. Capacity isn't enormous given the weight of baby boomers who have more time and money than anyone ever before. This is Las Vegas' sweet spot. And most of them won't even start turning 65 until 2014 so Las Vegas has a good eight years of benefits from that trend.

Andrew Zarnett

We expect to see the continuation of the slowing trend in many markets.

Mark Milner

The macro trend is favorable for all these players.

Michael Tieu

Consumption is strong and wages are rising, so the CPI trend is improving. In six months, deflation will be over.

Masaaki Kanno

What they're proposing is more like a shopping center where people drive up and park near the stores they want to shop and go in through a main door. There seems to be a trend away from the small malls. [Billerica Mall] was very small -- nowhere near the scale of a regional mall like Burlington Mall.

Peter Kennedy

The numbers aren't final but we have sampled out polling stations and the trend shows voter turnout will be about 70 percent.

Ofwono Opondo

Feeder-calf prices could hold in the mid-$90s at the lows if exports are back to 2.5 billion lbs. — and corn prices remain in check. If exports fail to grow, prices will trend lower.

Randy Blach

Despite the decline in headline producer price pressures, the risks of deflation have clearly vanished and signs of inflationary pressures have emerged. With the Fed holding real rates below zero, we expect producer prices to continue their upward trend in the months ahead.

Brian Wesbury

If it's a seesaw, it's a little bit tilted in favor of renters. If the occupancy trend continues, then people aren't going to be putting rents up. Rents would at least stay stable and possibly decline.

Chris Bates

It's good news if you can increase participation and increase performance of that group at the same time, ... It goes against the trend.

Brian O'reilly

Taken together with the buoyancy of the service sector, the manufacturing figures leave us on track for trend GDP growth, or even slightly better, going into this year, which is consistent with the MPC keeping interest rates on hold.

Nick Kounis

The trend for reduced unemployment rates is pleasing but as a government, we still have more work to do to with our industrial relation reforms and changes to unfair dismissal laws, which will remove the monkey on the back of small business.

Bob Baldwin

This is a very significant result, and it's not some sort of trend that's going to shift back the other way.

David Barber

Price pressures remain but continue to show a moderating trend.

Philadelphia Fed

From what we can see, it's a trend that is moving into Eastern Washington from Western Washington.

Brad Taylor

I didn't feel my best. It's funny, I've never had a groin injury. They're kind of nagging. They don't hurt; you just feel a lack of strength. I've talked to a few buddies, and it appears that it's a trend around the league right now.

Brad May

I think that (packed byline) is an increasing trend when you get real large-scale issues like this. No one person knows how to put it all together.

Terry Chapin

Some of that is just the raw business climate. I'm not telling you we should pop open the champagne. But from my perspective, the trend line is going in the right direction.

Tim Mcnulty

Women, if left to their own devices, are going to tend and trend Democratic. That is absolutely the case. Women are still congenitally Democratic -- and I'm the Republican pollster saying that.

Kellyanne Conway

Economic activity in the first quarter clearly picked up from the previous quarter and the trend that was reached should more or less hold in the second quarter. However, that means that the expected acceleration did not occur.

Otmar Issing

Of course it's difficult to attribute any particular hurricane or hurricane season to global warming. But there's reason to believe there may be a trend here, and we ought to study it more.

Jim Lawrence

It's all about how the storms stack up. We have heavy snow years and light snow years. It's not indicative of any trend.

Bob Higgins

We're concerned there's a trend toward critical drugs being made by just one company. When companies merge, some products are discontinued for a variety of reasons.

Joe Deffenbaugh

It took a little courage to set out and do something modern, but we were convinced that modern and high-design is the forward trend. We're very focused on our positioning and our image and the entire basket of goods, rather than simply having a hotel and putting residences on top.

Marty Collins

One person's trend is another person's fluctuation.

Richard Alley

We are seeing a trend shift with travelers now favoring classic popular destinations such as Rome, Venice, Paris and London, while Eastern Europe was all the rage in 2005. With all of the incredible variety Europe has to offer, it was surprising that the top two cities according to travelers are both in Italy.

Michele Perry

We are facing an epidemic of obesity that threatens the public health of California and the rest of the nation. We must improve our children's nutrition and level of physical activity if we are going to reverse this trend.

Sandra Shewry

Piracy on campuses has been a concern for quite a while, and we have been actively engaged in a number of efforts with universities to get the word out to students. This particular trend or growing problem is something that is a more recent development, and we are working on all fronts to stay on top of all means of piracy and addressing them.

Gayle Osterberg

It is a very, very low potency heroin mixture. We don't anticipate it becoming a trend, but we are aware of it, and we'll certainly watch for it.

Rogene Waite

Beth threw well again tonight. It's continuing a trend for Beth this season. She's hitting her spots and limiting her walks, which is keeping opposing batters from focusing on a certain pitch. She's handling herself very well.

Tina Deese

Sadly, this is a real trend.

Linda Blair

This is definitely part of a major trend in the industry.

Kirk Paulsen

European stocks have had a very good run and there is no reason why the trend should stop. We may see short-term profit-taking, but I don't expect a strong correction.

Alberto Espelosin

Trigger a trend of confrontation, which is bound to escalate and where everyone stands to lose.

Sirus Nasseri

It's just stupid. When's all this stuff going to happen? What's going to happen between now and then? You invest because you see a trend that's real, because you see a real business.

Jeff Matthews

The trend toward consolidation is being driven by globalization, with mergers giving companies from all industries sufficient scale and a lower cost structure to enable them to compete in a global arena.

James Mulva

The main point though is that output growth has now been below trend for five quarters and we can't see that changing over the next year or so.

Philip Shaw

We view the 8th as a swing district that is trending more Democratic each cycle.

Paul Berendt

We think pets are the next huge trend. It's a $40 billion dollar industry. Pets are our other babies.

Kelly Mooney

The market has been in a lateral consolidation for the last six to eight weeks, and we're seeing a continuation of that. Having broken through some technical resistance levels, it is appropriate that there has been some profit-taking. But the general trend of the market remains positive longer-term.

Scotty George

It's a little too early to say anything. It's not necessarily a trend. Things fluctuate from year to year and from month to month. You could have a high month in January, and it could even out pretty quickly.

Jess Brown

A fairly balanced credit trend for the year is anticipated, as a focus on cost reductions over the preceding three years is helping to offset continuing pricing pressures across almost all sectors. Similarly, increasing M&A activity, dividends, and share repurchases offset improving financial profiles, further supporting expectations for a balanced ratings trend.

William Wetreich

Yields are going to continue to trend upward as the Fed keeps raising rates. The Fed believes that the risk of inflation is skewed to the upside and in order to alleviate that risk, they need to keep raising rates.

Joseph Shatz

This is a very scary trend. In the past, people could say, 'It's not in my neighborhood and I don't have to worry about it.' That's no longer the case.

Aaron Graham

Angling is one of America's most popular sports. It's a sport everyone can enjoy. Spending time on the water is a great way for families and friends to connect. We see this as a good sign and a trend that we want to see continue.

Mike Nussman

Don't buy your favorite stock until you see the earnings statement. It's better to have the trend with you than guess at a bottom.

Barry Hyman

The trend will continue. There is no indication that it will turn around. Actually, it seems to be getting worse.

James Hill

This industry is consolidating as it becomes more global. We are leading a new trend that we believe will change the future and the face of this industry.

Robert Eaton

The markets have been on a very good run over the last few months. Perhaps this is the end of that trend.

Jimmy Yates

This is a continuation of a trend that's already been in place. We don't have a huge inflation problem, but it seems to me that people don't give enough weight to the possibility something like that is brewing.

James Padinha

The market is much calmer. Basically it was the continuation of yesterday's trend today, helped by a rise in U.S. stocks.

Carlos Augusto Levorin

Normally there is a diversion of 2 to 3 percent. Instead we saw an increase. We bucked the trend and swung to get 5 percent.

Dan Stessel

Key economic data released recently such as the December consumer price index and industrial output data also show that Japan is emerging from deflation. Today's data emerged in line with this trend.

Tatsuya Torikoshi

Elena plays against a bunch of those girls and they know what she is throwing or if she's slow. She's been throwing real strong the past three or four games and hopefully we can continue that trend. Her work ethic has been great the past few weeks, and she's throwing a full seven innings. She wants to beat them as much as they want to beat us.

Michelle Rochinski

If I've seen a trend, teams have been much more pro-active to try to negotiate so that it doesn't become an issue in July - more than I've seen in the past.

Don Meehan

Almost all of this slowing trend is due to the dramatic swings in Information employment in L.A. County.

Ryan Ratcliff

It is more towards the Kenyatta aloofness. It is delegation without taking responsibility. Ministers are contradicting each other. They are issuing statements that endanger the nation. But the President is quiet. It is not a good trend.

Joseph Kamotho

This is a trend we been watching for a number of years. It's only a matter of time before debit overtakes credit.

Kenny Thomas

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.

Beth Robertson

I would say it's a dueling trend that retail mutual fund companies are starting hedge fund like vehicles to retain that talent. That is a weapon in a fund company's arsenal.

Christine Benz

This is only half the story. Nokia is clearly having good volumes. Now we need to see what the margins are and whether this is a one-quarter phenomenon or a long-term trend.

Damien Chew

From a yield perspective, the pound is looking attractive as the trend appears to be to buy yield. For now, the pound is likely to remain strong on uncertainty over the outlook for U.S. rates.

Kamal Sharma

You could make the case that maybe some play patterns trend toward the more wholesome, more palatable toys. It resonates more with children given what we may see, or what we're hearing right now.

Melissa Williams

Contrary to the prevailing gold industry trend, our cost profile is expected to decline significantly in the year ahead, while our gold production is projected to increase by more than 50 per cent over the same period.

Kevin Mcarthur

It's clear that people currently working should factor into their retirement planning the long-term trend away from traditional defined benefit pensions. That means people need to be saving more than they are.

Jack Vanderhei

We are actively reaching out to Eclipse developers. We think Eclipse is the way things are trending.

Adam Gross

We urge the Supreme People's Court to conduct an immediate review of this decision with a view to overturning it. Extending the death penalty to cover more crimes goes against the international trend towards abolition.

Mark Allison

We are still very much on an upward trend, but I think it is good that we did some profit-taking today.

Julio Mora

The trend in the last couple of years has been a decline in unemployment.

Shelley Allen

This simplification of 'Wellness' to the 'Power to Be Happy' is part of a larger social trend to embrace personal pleasures and comforting values. Consumers anticipate that being happy makes them healthier, and that when they take better care of their health, they are better able to be happy.

Barbara Katz

It has been a long hard August with significant volatility. Twenty-one of the last 30 Septembers have yielded losses on the month. It is difficult to see that this September will buck the trend.

David Buik

There are less and less places to enjoy the product, and this plays right into that trend. We're really hoping to capitalize on connoisseurship in the cigarette category. When you look at beer, wine, chocolate and other high-quality products that have a branded experience associated with them that have emerged in the past 10 to 15 years, that hasn't happened in cigarettes.

Brian Stebbins

The New York gains are nice, but a rebound of this scale is not enough to turn the bearish trend around.

Kunihiro Hatae

You've got to break out of this downward trend to get higher. Sometimes, in order to do that, you've got to sell off a lot more first. We're just dribbling right now, but there's the potential to go a lot lower.

Frank Gretz

We eventually decided to transform ourselves into a sales promotion agency, which turned out to be the first one in America. We had started a trend and defined a new category of communications services.

Robert Sandelman

It's a very tight marketplace with a very short supply of viable talent, and we expect that trend to continue for the next 12 to 18 months. In the manager, senior manager and executive levels, we're seeing even more urgency among employers looking for good candidates both locally and from outside Las Vegas.

Bill Werksman

The recent set of data came weaker than a market consensus, but the basic trend is that the economic recovery is in progress.

Susumu Abe

Everyone has their own reasons for it. I don't necessarily think it's one trend. I know (Hilton Head Christian coach) Matt Smith hopes it's not. I talked to him, I said, 'Hey, you're just grooming them, man. Just start grooming them, funnel them my way, funnel them ...' I give him a hard time.

Nathan Stevens

It is a little bit of a trend with the price of fuel going up and (biofuels) being environmentally friendly. There is a niche market for it.

Peter Nelson

The economy continues to grow at more or less its trend rate and there is no obvious reason for interest rates to change in the near future.

Martin Weale

The normal trend in pro sports is that you will realize a spike [in ticket sales] a year after you enjoy success. That's what we're experiencing right now. Fans have embraced this team. They have confidence in what we accomplished last year.

Bob Dibiasio

The equity market is still undecided about the overall trend of stocks. All in all the earnings so far have not been well received by investors and it looks as if stocks have to come down in price to attract investors.

Tom Hougaard

We want to make sure it doesn't continue, that this is a trend, make sure our members, consumers have the information they need to protect themselves.

Jimmy Baker

This is huge, and it's certainly the mark of the beginning of a trend in food service toward organic.

Jake Lewin

If we see an upward trend in delinquency ratios, we tighten our lending, but we have not had to do that.

Richard Herrington

The cheerleader calendar increased in popularity and sales each year (since 2002). We are confident this year?s version will continue that trend.

Mark Donovan

The things that have been accepted in recent years have been the ones that cut costs for producers. That will continue to be a trend.

Barry Nelson

The trend of the flattening of the yield curve will continue. The short- end yield is going up because growth is getting better.

Martin Bruni

It's like a trend that's taken over the league.

Michael Jenkins

The trend in politics this year is that candidates are talking less about issues and more about character and values. The environment can be a key issue in that dialogue because environmental support is perceived by voters to positively reflect on the character of candidates.

Deb Callahan

The 1980s was the last decade of large suburban expansion. The '90s were a re-sorting era, with the central city gaining population after decades of decline. Now we're in a decade trending toward a fairly large-scale re-sorting of the housing market away from the far reaches of suburbia.

Chris Nelson

I would guess that the trend is to the downside for the time being. With oil up around $55 a barrel, the economy slowing, corporate profits slowing, I think the market remains vulnerable.

Paul Levine

If that trend continues, it will help moderate customer prices in the future.

Jon Tremayne

Target's increased emphasis on providing consumers with trend-right merchandise has strengthened the retail chain's presence as a destination for apparel.

Jeffrey Klinefelter

Land is at a premium in the area. We're going to be seeing a trend in these higher density developments.

Dwight Kroll

With very strong overall performance early in the quarter, we are seeing flows into the industry pick up once again, in contrast to the recent trend of assets remaining on the sidelines.

Josh Rosenberg

I think (Fuller) has reversed a negative trend, ... I think it would be in the tank if it wasn't for Bonnie. How much farther it can go is the question.

Peter Kreisky