1.   Daimler said the effect of the rise was particularly severe at its aerospace unit, Daimler-Benz Aerospace AG, or DASA.

2.   Injuries have been so severe at receiver that the former Rutgers quarterback Mike McMahon, drafted last April by Millen, was inserted at receiver against Arizona.

3.   Maintenance problems were so severe at one inner-city bus division that an emergency management team was installed in late December to turn around the operation.

4.   The Far East encompasses the entire northeast coast of Asia but the epidemic is most severe at cities on the Sea of Japan north of North Korea.