31.   Sales of beef have dropped throughout Europe as fear spreads about mad cow disease.

32.   The big deals still hang in the air as the fear of fire sales spreads.

33.   The fear of anthrax spread to mid-America with a preliminary finding of contamination at a Kansas City postal facility.

34.   The concerns are reminiscent of not so long ago when fear spread that rich Arabs were buying up America.

35.   The fear spread to the streets of the quiet residential neighborhood outside, which were deserted.

36.   While depleted uranium fears spread, others advised caution.

37.   No-one was injured in either incident, which brought renewed urgency to a growing crisis that diplomats fear could spread to the rest of the tinderbox Balkans.