21.   Fear is growing within the Palestinian areas that criticism of Arafat and his aides will not be tolerated.

22.   Fears are growing of an outbreak of disease.

23.   Fears are growing that the sabotage of regional elections was a preview of a similar plan to disrupt the congressional and presidential elections next year.

24.   Her fear grew a few months later when her mother suffered a heart attack as paramedics prepared to take her to the hospital for further treatment.

25.   His fear of germs grew into a terror that people he loved would die.

26.   It is a problem officials fear will grow worse as Rohypnol, known as the date rape drug, spreads north.

27.   Meantime, as Americans hunch over their keyboards for longer periods, fears grow of about the vulnerability to the gargantuan computer network known as the Internet.

28.   Public fear grew.

29.   Public fear has grown with successive reports of anthrax infections among workers at postal centers, government offices and media outlets.

30.   Such fears have grown in Pyongyang, he said, as Russia has developed economic and political ties with South Korea.