Or are these just pauses in two long-running trends that will soon resume, with the dollar declining and interest rates falling again?

Worse, it is part of a long-running trend.

Long hair is a long-running trend.

The United States economy shed 44,000 manufacturing jobs last month, continuing a long-running trend away from production.

This erosion of low-cost seats is a long-running trend.

She decides what the long-running trends will be.

Productivity, a broad measure of output per hours worked, fell in the manufacturing sector and rose in the service sector, the reverse of a long-running trend.

In fact, the ascension of Ms. Pelosi and Mr. DeLay reflects a long-running trend in Congress, particularly in the House.

While the long-running trend toward more active life styles remains positive for Nike, discretionary purchases like athletic shoes are very vulnerable to economic weakness, they said.

And key portions of the disk drive business remained too soft to halt a long-running trend of declining sales.