11.   Analysts said the activity reflected growing worries about corporate profits.

12.   As global warming becomes a growing worry, fuel economy is becoming an environmental issue.

13.   Argentine stocks plummeted and bonds weakened Thursday as growing worries about its ability to keep up with debt payments deepened investor gloom and shook key Latin American currencies.

14.   But some investors steered clear of the market amid growing worries that the controversy and uncertainties regarding China could prevent the United States from meeting its aggressive export target.

15.   But they agreed that the possibility of a nuclear-armed Iran is a growing worry.

16.   Despite growing worries about the deteriorating Japanese economy, the central bank decided Friday to keep monetary policy unchanged.

17.   Greenspan has expressed growing worries that the dwindling supply of available workers will eventually force employers to raise product prices to cover their higher wage costs.

18.   India and Pakistan appeared to have responded to growing international worry over hostilities between the two nuclear-armed nations.

19.   Japanese stock prices sank for a fourth consecutive session Wednesday amid growing worries about the global economy and the impact on corporate profits.

20.   Jerome J. Schentag, a pharmaceutics professor at the State University of New York in Buffalo, noted that quinolone resistance is a growing worry.