1.   Although the supply of drywall and insulation has reached a crisis level during the past eight months, cement has been in short supply for more than a year.

2.   Because of low rainfall, the productivity of those plants is threatened, and the problem is approaching what some consider crisis levels.

3.   Cynicism has reached crisis levels, Rifkin said.

4.   For instance, the panel demanded the hiring of many new social workers, complaining that caseloads had reached crisis levels.

5.   If changes in entitlement programs are postponed until they hit crisis levels, the results could be drastic because the options will be fewer, Lindsey said.

6.   Opposition in Europe is reaching a crisis level.

7.   Reduced tax receipts and increased spending by the old government during the elections last September ratcheted up the budget deficit to crisis levels.

8.   Sensing that this long-term, high burnout problem is reaching crisis levels, teaching hospitals from Massachusetts to California are reassessing their residency programs.

9.   The decades-old disparity heads toward crisis levels as states hold teachers more accountable and schools struggle to fill teaching posts, experts say.

10.   The situation was at crisis levels in several southwest Arkansas counties that had no power for a second day Wednesday.