1.   At the same time, the incident alarmed some officials in Russia, who had threatened to restrict adoptions by outsiders.

2.   Federal and state officials are alarmed by the explosive growth in the private centers.

3.   In response, the government of Yugoslavia put four more militarized police units into the area, alarming NATO officials.

4.   Shortly after the government introduced Americans to the impressive compounding power of tax-deferred savings, federal officials became alarmed by how much revenue the treasury was losing.

5.   The New York Times reported recently that the trend is large enough to alarm officials on the island nation.

6.   The number of pedestrians killed on the streets of San Francisco nearly doubled in a one-year period, a statistic that alarmed city officials.

7.   Those have alarmed officials at clinics across the nation but have thus far proved free of lethal anthrax.

8.   Aid officials are alarmed by the extent of hunger in government-controlled areas.

9.   Clashes there and battles for other strategic heights in central Bosnia have alarmed U.N. officials, who appealed to both sides to stop before a tattered truce collapses completely.

10.   In addition to the police split, international officials are alarmed by the increasingly hostile tone of Bosnian Serb state media.