11.   But each maneuver won just a few weeks of stability, before a new crisis emerged.

12.   But each new step toward autonomy presents a new crisis.

13.   But if a new crisis is to be avoided, leaders in both Taipei and Beijing will need to behave responsibly in the weeks ahead.

14.   But the idea was ahead of the technology and unhappy buyers returned most of the systems, creating a new crisis.

15.   But the country faced a new political crisis amid growing protests by unpaid workers and a Communist threat to initiate impeachment procedings against President Boris N. Yeltsin.

16.   But Warner and McCain oppose scuttling the accord, fearing that this could ignite a new crisis in the Far East and the Republicans would get the blame.

17.   City commissioners may come and go, and new crises pass through municipal governments like the wind.

18.   Counselors and teachers say the trauma of a tornado striking in the hilly heart of New England does not appear to have caused new crises among the students.

19.   Creative people in Hollywood are still examining what part they should play in the new crisis.

20.   Each flurry of negotiations about Eran would be offset by new political crises.