The same trend holds true for higher education private institutions.

However, this trend does not hold true for network programming.

The division's experts project that by 2050, if current trends hold, 42 percent of Italy's population will be 60 or older.

And the trend has not held true across the board.

The graph at the top shows this trend holds true today.

The trend held through the first three quarters of 1998, Challenger said.

If current trends hold, perhaps fewer than 30 of the students will graduate from high school.

Yet that is what lies ahead, if the current trend holds.

In 2005, the trend has held until very recently.

"That trend is holding the same over the holidays," he said.