1.   ...the approaching crisis.

2.   And every one of them, he tells audiences, will help forestall an approaching crisis of dirty air and undrinkable water.

3.   The defenders of Social Security maintain that the news of its approaching crisis has been greatly exaggerated.

4.   New President Ernesto Zedillo announced an emergency plan Thursday to confront the approaching crisis by the plunge of the peso.

5.   Not only the prophets were aware of an approaching crisis.