It was a global trend, unfolding to various degrees in London, Tokyo, and Chicago, among other cities.
"So insurance rates go up, and then more businesses drop insurance," Ms. Young Brown continued, describing a trend unfolding nationwide.
This is just one small node in what is the single most important trend unfolding in the world today: globalization — the distribution of cheap tools of communication and innovation that are wiring together the world's citizens, governments, businesses, terrorists and now mountaintops — is going to a whole new level.
Every earnings season, a peculiar trend unfolds in the stock market.
Pretty cool trend unfolding as more Internet-scale businesses invent the software and increasingly the hardware to get work done that they can't do with off the shelf products.
As these female sports executives slowly and steadily make behind-the-scenes changes on the business side, a more visible trend unfolds: Sports managers and marketers are realizing that women hold powerful sway when it comes to buying game tickets, watching games on TV and buying sports-related merchandise.
One can see this growing trend unfolding in Disney and Pixar films, where adult humour is prevalent.
The study also discovered an opposite trend unfolding in the Channel Islands, off the coast of Southern California, where wet, thick fog and low clouds have been descending with increasing regularity since 1948.
AT THEIR factory in Big Rapids, Michigan, workers at Bates, a maker of military boots and shoes, can see geopolitical trends unfold before their eyes.
The new year will be more about the dynamics of what comes into play as these trends unfold.
