1.   There were alarming reports that retired persons on fixed incomes were on the brink of being taxed out of their homes.

2.   NURSES are literally worrying themselves sick trying to cope with the increased pressures of their job, according to an alarming report published today.

3.   Indeed, a decade ago Human Rights Watch was publicizing alarming reports of discrimination in what was then Yugoslavia.

4.   Reactions to these alarming reports have varied from fatalism to urgent concern.

5.   Still, we keep smoking, with alarming reports of increasing numbers of younger smokers.

6.   The disclosure of the fuel truck sighting adds a new element to a tapestry of alarming reports recorded by U.S. officers in recent months.

7.   The TEA set the new policy in response to alarming reports of high numbers of obese and overweight children.

8.   A Kenyan court on Thursday charged two men found with posters bearing the name of Osama bin Laden with planning to distribute alarming reports that could cause fear.

9.   A tense political standoff this month has generated alarming reports about another ex-Soviet region disintegrating into chaos.

10.   A tense political standoff this month has stirred widespread concern and generated alarming reports about another ex-Soviet region disintegrating in tumult.