1.   It has been a bloody few days here, with violence that has clearly escalated since Wednesday.

2.   The situation has escalated since the terrorist attacks, especially in the hard-hit aviation and tourism industries.

3.   They say the conflicting signals have escalated since the spring.

4.   Although the Persian Gulf region generally is considered more dangerous than many other parts of the world, security worries have escalated since the Cole bombing.

5.   But Yugoslav troops have moved back in and the fighting has escalated since the beginning of the year.

6.   Civil unrest in this sprawling Southeast Asian nation has escalated since student protests and riots forced ex-President Suharto to quit last May.

7.   Crime has escalated since the fall of the Soviet Union six years ago.

8.   Fighting between Turkish troops and autonomy seeking rebels has escalated since Kurdish guerrilla leader Abdullah Ocalan was put on trial on charges of treason and separatism.

9.   Fighting between Serb forces and ethnic Albanians seeking independence from Serbia, which together with Montenegro makes up Yugoslavia, has escalated since March.

10.   Rebel violence has escalated since the February collapse of peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.