Current market trends confront industrial production with significant challenges: Volatility increases, uncertainty mounts, complexity grows and ambiguity escalates.
But, as Firefox shows, that could change.The second trend confronting Microsoft comes from online applications and the rise of software as a service.
In that sense, Mr. Giuliani is bucking what many members of his party consider to be a powerful trend and confronting what is often assumed to be a wall of opposition among Christian conservatives, among other constituencies that play influential roles in the nominating process.
Employers that already cover their employees will (if past trends continue) confront big cost increases; those that don't provide wide coverage may be forced by state or federal legislation to do so.
It sold development rights to a handful of properties, leased others and padlocked the rest in an effort to narrow a local budget gap, while confronting nationwide trends like low attendance, a priest shortage, the rising cost of maintaining century-old buildings, and a new demand for churches in the far exurbs.
Google's focus on Android is a necessary but not sufficient part of confronting these trends.
Encouragingly, the work we are actively engaged in at Living Cities is providing us with evidence of an America that is actively confronting these trends.
China's leaders seem to be of two minds in confronting the trend.
Ram Cnaan, a professor at the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania, said the slowing trend showed politicians were confronting a painful truth about prisons.
On Monday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters that gun control was "part of" the equation to confronting the trend of mass shootings, but "far from all of it".
