And in what appears to be an ominous trend, it's the younger Americans who feel the most estranged.

It could also be a harbinger of a more ominous trend.

All these ominous trends need to be reversed at the earliest.

An ominous trend is that workers are increasingly turning down offers by employers for insurance.

"It's an ominous trend away from a tradition of an open telephone network," he said.

The second is his ability to deal with what some talent agents and producers view as an ominous trend in television.

I should have discussed the implications of this ominous trend.

A second ominous trend in the 1975-81 period was the decline of the manufacturing sector.

And already, statistics on homelessness in the city suggest some potentially ominous trends.

Researchers said this was one of several ominous trends in employer-based health insurance.