11.   Rude people have always existed, of course, but Martin says bad manners have reached crisis proportions.

12.   Some in the trucking and contracting industries, inconvenienced by the slow Subaru operation, blame state officials for allowing the problem to reach crisis proportions.

13.   State education officials said that while the study identifies a pressing need, the situation in Massachusetts is not of crisis proportions.

14.   The chronic shortage of qualified special education teachers is swelling to crisis proportions, educators and researchers agree.

15.   The lack of quake coverage is reaching crisis proportions, the commissioner said.

16.   The situation took on crisis proportions when Simon learned that he had to pass one last course or be done for the season.

17.   There is a sense among many students of the subject that sleep deprivation is reaching crisis proportions.

18.   This dismal state of affairs has not yet reached crisis proportions, although a feeling of bureaucratic drift is unmistakable.

19.   Vieira de Mello also spoke of the suffering of civilians.Unemployment had reached crisis proportions, he said, and health, water, transport and heating have suffered.

20.   While a scandal-starved press corps prattles on about whether Bush ever took illicit drugs, a serious nationwide problem has been rapidly reaching crisis proportions.