11.   In the north, and also in the Savoy region, snow clogged the roads and avalanches were a threat.

12.   In the north, particularly in the Savoy region, snow clogged the roads and avalanches were a threat.

13.   It appears that the eastern avalanches were of the slab type.

14.   Leading scientists say another avalanche of change is under way, opening the new century with a wholly new kind of medicine for an aging world.

15.   There will be an avalanche of millennium T-shirts, caps, movies, bumper stickers, songs, television specials and anything else that can turn a fast buck.

16.   There was an avalanche of remembrance and tribute to go with the sorrow.

17.   There will be an avalanche of Bill Parcells speculation.

18.   Where is the avalanche of store advertisements announcing this or that once-in-a-thousand-years sale?

19.   With less snow and more rain in coastal areas, for instance, there are fewer avalanches.

20.   Another avalanche was possible and the gymnasium roof could cave in, McInnis said.