21.   Tensions flared between the authorities and Italians in the Bronx earlier this century.

22.   Tensions flared last year when Japanese authorities refused to approve new route applications by Northwest and FedEx.

23.   This flashpoint is where tensions flared this week.

24.   Those aircraft were sent to the gulf when tensions with Iraq flared in November.

25.   Trade tensions also flared.

26.   Trouble continued through the years, and racial tension occasionally flared, particularly in South Boston.

27.   Trains between the terminals were halted for an hour and a half, and people started to feel trapped and tensions flared.

28.   Racial tensions have flared ahead of the elections, with Prime Minister Basdeo Panday, an Indo-Trinidadian, fighting accusations of racial favoritism in his government.

29.   Racial tensions often flare into violence.

30.   A day ahead of a Serbian referendum on Kosovo, tensions flared in the troubled province again Wednesday as Serb forces and ethnic Albanian militants exchanged fire.