11.   As public anxieties about Republicans in Congress intensified, the strategy gradually began to look prescient.

12.   At the same time, officials sought to calm public anxiety with some simple numbers.

13.   A leading Democrat immediately accused Gingrich of playing to public anxieties over illegal aliens to win political points.

14.   A press conference Thursday intended to allay public anxiety about bioterrorism was not reassuring.

15.   But after three years of public anxiety and intensive sleuthing, the cause of the outbreak of the so-called neural tube defects remains a nagging medical enigma.

16.   But in a climate of public anxiety about ethics, the cause of cleaning up the election system was bound to return.

17.   But politics and public anxiety sometimes intrude.

18.   But public anxiety is perhaps unavoidable because the mechanics of flight remain to many people a bit of a mystery.

19.   But with public anxiety rising, problems have also begun appearing in other parts of the economy.

20.   Clinton waved off any suggestion that public anxieties would impede preparations.