31.   With the new labor law, workers fear, companies will be able to dismiss workers without providing severance pay.

32.   With so many simultaneous disasters, relief workers fear for the future.

33.   Workers also fear that a merger of Mobil and Exxon may give the combined company far too much refining capacity.

34.   Workers feared that a better-managed private system would threaten their jobs and stop an unchecked flow of bribes, experts said.

35.   Workers fear a sale will lead to layoffs.

36.   Younger workers fear that they will have none.

37.   Only small numbers of employees abandoned the walkout, which was called to protest a planned merger of two major commercial banks that workers fear will cause layoffs.

38.   A rash of malaria cases has been recorded in central Russia and emergency workers fear an epidemic, a news agency said Wednesday.

39.   Aid workers fear more starvation deaths in the bush.

40.   Aid workers fear the rebels may ignore their own two-month deadline and make good on a threat to clear the refugees out themselves.