Community policing is the most promising trend in urban law enforcement.
Looking more deeply at the data, Professor Bates said, reveals other promising trends.
These promising trends seem to have begun in the late 1980's.
There is one promising trend for Redmond, however, and that's Windows 7.
The government proposals and projects are efforts to position their nations to exploit a promising trend in technology.
That more schools are keeping their doors open for after-school programs is a promising trend.
Despite these challenges, this year's survey also contains some very promising trends.
These are promising trends, but the numbers tell us almost nothing about the meaning of poverty in this city.
This season, however, there is a promising trend: big books with brains.
What's going on in Iran today is, without question, the most promising trend in the Muslim world.