1.   European leaders watched events unfold with increasing alarm.

2.   Health authorities have recognized with increasing alarm just how widespread the illness is.

3.   Officials from the United States and elsewhere around the world have been watching the slumbering Japanese economy with increasing alarm.

4.   Privacy and civil liberty groups, however, have expressed increasing alarm in recent years about the rising number of government applications to the court.

5.   The program is part of a nationwide response to an increasing alarm over the growing girth of American children.

6.   The program, in East Palo Alto, Calif., is part of a nationwide response to an increasing alarm over the growing girth of American children.

7.   With increasing alarm over outbreaks of food poisoning, scientists and the food industry have renewed their search for a magic bullet.

8.   Japanese have expressed increasing alarm recently over rising juvenile crime.

9.   President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro on Wednesday wrapped up consulations to pick a premier amid increasing alarm about the effects of the political crisis on the economy.

10.   Proponents of a bill to expand trade with China expressed increasing alarm that they are losing momentum in the Senate.