1.   At Forty-second Street stand the twin apartment towers of Manhattan Plaza, grim reminders of two more miserable affairs.

2.   They passed the armed guard, a grim reminder of the ever-present threat of terrorism.

3.   The accident serves as a grim reminder of the dangers of drinking and driving.

4.   The grim reminder that every holiday weekend inevitably results in a slew of highway fatalities.

5.   As two of the three Poole children return home from school, they pass the armed sentry, a grim reminder of the ever present threat of terrorism.

6.   Ana Robles keeps it wrapped in plastic bags, a grim reminder.

7.   But the death of a Houston-area freshman track runner last month served as a grim reminder that high school athletics is not immune from tragedy.

8.   But what we saw at the Astrodome on Friday should be, for TCU fans, a grim reminder of what the Frogs left behind.

9.   For weary Mavericks fans staying away from Reunion in record numbers, each visit is a grim reminder of the seemingly endless chain of failed rebuilding plans.

10.   German products also were, for the hundreds of thousands of Holocaust survivors who had resettled in Israel, grim reminders of that history.