1.   Gas prices are expected to continue to escalate in the short term.

2.   Gunfire could be heard in the city all day, she said, but the violence escalated late in the evening.

3.   The war of nerves between police and the barricaded guerrillas has escalated in recent days.

4.   American diplomats are deeply involved as the dangers escalate in Kosovo.

5.   And that is one problem with the intensive fishing of menhaden, which has escalated in recent decades.

6.   And, as these things can, it could have escalated in Rome, too.

7.   As she experiences escalating danger in her sexual escapades, serious repercussions occur.

8.   As the crisis escalates in the Middle East, several of our oldest allies in the region may turn out to be much weaker than the West hopes.

9.   As the bloodshed and slaughter escalate in the former Yugoslavia, the United States is debating what should be done.

10.   At some point, she began to write herself a few company checks, a habit that escalated in recent years, according to Manhattan prosecutors and Harris.