11.   How Wright goes about the job is symptomatic of what commissioner Bud Selig considers an alarming trend.

12.   Instead, he left in the sixth inning with a sore one, continuing an alarming trend by Angels pitchers.

13.   Instead of selecting his successor, however, Jordan warns about the alarming trend of overpaying for potential.

14.   No one here dismisses the idea that drug use among young people is an alarming trend.

15.   Perhaps the most alarming trend in professional sports is the overall decline in the quality of excuses.

16.   Politicians from liberals like Kennedy to conservative populists like Patrick Buchanan have cited the income gap as perhaps the most alarming economic trend of the last generation.

17.   So far, the Falcons have managed to overcome the alarming trend.

18.   Something has to be done about the latest alarming trend among American teen-agers.

19.   The alarming trend of recent bloodletting, however, persuaded the administration that it could no longer watch from the sidelines.

20.   The press has published many worthwhile books, and its death is part of the alarming trend that would narrow the outlets for ideas and argument.