21.   The use of inhibition-relaxing drugs, they say, is compounding another alarming trend noted by researchers and social workers in the AIDS field.

22.   This is an alarming trend.

23.   This alarming trend did not result simply from interest rates.

24.   Those numbers continued an alarming trend for Abbott from the All-Star break.

25.   Although the government does not publish national crime statistics, anecdotal evidence and limited crime figures suggest alarming trends.

26.   An alarming trend, he said, is the growing use of child soldiers.

27.   From a statistical standpoint, the boys fit what some experts call an alarming national trend.

28.   Matviyenko said the most alarming trends are the increasing number of young people taking drugs and the rapid spread of AIDS.

29.   Morris said the latest spate of deaths shows an alarming new trend.

30.   Reports in the official media reflect more alarming trends.