1.   Escalating tension in universities and secondary schools from late April had resulted in a number of deaths among students and the arrest of several hundred alleged Nahda activists.

2.   Anwar said that during this period of escalating tension, the police initiated an aggressive investigation into his personal life.

3.   A first novel charts the escalating tension between a woman and her teen-age daughter in a New England mill town.

4.   Adding to the escalating tension in the relationship are other disputes, or initiatives that have created a sense of conflicting policy goals.

5.   Columnist Chuck Colbert comments on the escalating tensions.

6.   Concern that escalating political tensions in West Africa could spill over to the Ivory Coast and Ghana, disrupting harvests and transportation, also buoyed prices, analysts said.

7.   Concern that escalating political tensions in West Africa could spill over to the Ivory Coast and Ghana, disrupting harvests and transportation, also buoyed prices.

8.   Consider the current escalating tensions between China and the United States over Taiwan.

9.   Conservatives moved quickly to blame the Clinton administration for the escalating tension in South Asia.

10.   Crude oil futures rose amid speculation that escalating tensions between the United Nations and Iraq could eventually lead to action that will jeopardize oil exports.