1.   There has been an alarming increase in the number of shootings on our streets.

2.   An alarming increase in conditions that make nuclear theft possible - even easy - are cropping up at nuclear production plants all over Russia.

3.   And in Iraq, there have been reports of an alarming increase in civilian cancer deaths and deformities in babies since the Gulf War.

4.   And there were alarming increases in the amounts paid by the city to settle police brutality lawsuits.

5.   But now we see an alarming increase in violent dissent.

6.   Civic soul-searching is under way, particularly over how to rejuvenate the economy and cope with the alarming increase in gang activity.

7.   Now, after an alarming increase of the disease among college students, some some say freshmen should be vaccinated.

8.   One study documented an alarming increase in severe cases of jaundice in Northern California, and other hospitals report similar trends nationwide.

9.   The allegations involving Global Village underscore what many lawyers consider an alarming increase in sexual harassment cases, especially in Silicon Valley companies.

10.   The attacks reflect what law-enforcement officials say is an alarming increase in both random and calculated violence in otherwise stable white enclaves of the city.