61.   Incidents have multiplied as violence in the Middle East has increased and Israel has applied growing military pressure on Palestinians.

62.   Insurance companies and government programs cut their payments to hospitals, which needed to react fast to counteract the growing financial pressures.

63.   It also could help relieve growing pressure on Netscape, which is battling with Microsoft Corp. for the role of Internet standard bearer.

64.   Instead, Kubori said, the growing pressure is increasingly pushing them into outright extortion and other criminal acts.

65.   Lawmakers have felt growing political pressure to help these noncitizens.

66.   Moreover, Yeltsin faces growing pressure from the United States and Europe over a war which has taken hundreds of civilian lives without subduing the Chechen rebels.

67.   Most companies are under growing pressure to replace declining gas reserves.

68.   Most economists and financial analysts here believe that Cavallo will stand by his word and not devalue the peso, despite the growing pressure on the currency.

69.   Nevertheless, analysts say Esser is under growing pressure to cut a deal.

70.   Papandreou is said to be bewildered by his steep drop in the polls and by the growing pressure for him to step down.