1.   Even escalating hostilities in Kosovo did not dampen investor enthusiasm.

2.   Unflinchingly, it confronts a bleak climate of escalating hostility on the part of one disenfranchised group toward another.

3.   Pakistan accused India of escalating hostilities in the disputed region.

4.   Cease-fire monitors, seeking to defuse escalating hostilities, appealed to the warring sides to avoid shelling civilians.

5.   Dallaire had warned the United Nations about escalating hostilities and had sought to raid a Hutu militia arms cache, but was overruled by U.N. headquarters in New York.

6.   Hariri, President Elias Hrawi and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri hurriedly scheduled a summit Friday with Syrian President Hafez Assad in Damascus to discuss the escalating hostilities.

7.   In another development Wednesday, the government said it will not borrow money to meet its defense needs for the escalating hostilities with the Tamil rebels.

8.   Israeli warplanes and soldiers attacked suspected guerrilla infiltration trails Monday in escalating hostilities in southern Lebanon.

9.   The bomb attack came amid escalating hostilities that have killed nine SLA militiamen and one Israeli soldier in south Lebanon in the past week.

10.   The attack is further evidence of escalating hostility between the Serbs and U.N. forces and came during an especially bloody weekend in Sarajevo.