These trends and low interest rates have helped increase banks' profitability.

He said the trend could carry into 1990 and help reduce future deficits.

Several trends are helping the explosive growth of health-care advertising.

"I do think this trend helps us realize that alone time is an important element" in romantic relationships, he said.

These trends helped create the acquiescent mood of the audience here.

He and others say that trends already taking root will help trim Japan's trade surplus eventually.

That trend, experts say, will help shape the nation's housing market through the 1990's and past the turn of the century.

That trend, in turn, has helped keep prices high.

The trend has helped develop water sports on all the islands.

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