21.   Officials of the San Marcos district said they were on a heightened state of alert.

22.   The action of pulling his ear lobe is known as an associative posthypnotic command, which brought him into a heightened state of concentration.

23.   The arrest prompted President Clinton to announce a heightened state of alert for federal law enforcement agencies.

24.   The brothers claim they were in a heightened state of fear at the time of the shootings and thought their parents were going to kill them.

25.   The brothers claim they were in a heightened state of fear following years of abuse, and shot in a blind panic.

26.   U.S. military forces in Bahrain have been placed on a heightened state of alert after a threat of a terrorist attack, a Defense Department official said Wednesday.

27.   OSCE spokesman Jorgen Grunnet said the cease-fire monitors were in no heightened state of alert.

28.   Our military forces and our embassies in the region have been on heightened state of alert for some time now.

29.   A Pentagon spokesman said Wednesday that Marine units were on a heightened state of alert in Italy to protect the U.S. embassy in Macedonia if necessary.

30.   At the time, U.S. military forces throughout the Persian Gulf were put on a heightened state of alert as a precaution.