1.   The merest hint of trouble is spreading panic.

2.   The river, meanwhile, pushed on, flattening the sand dams with heavy ice floes, creeping up to the houses closest to the river and spreading panic.

3.   What happens if stock prices plunge, spreading panic among the ranks of newly empowered investors, before the marketplace has finished reinventing itself?

4.   An active volcano spat out fire and rocks Saturday night near the eastern Congolese rebel stronghold at Goma, spreading panic among residents who thought they were under attack.

5.   ECOMOG officers have threatened to jail journalists for spreading panic among civilians.

6.   ECOMOG officers has threatened jail terms to journalists for unauthorized press dispatches and has blamed the media for spreading panic among civilians.

7.   The increasing violence and halt in food distribution by aid workers was spreading panic through refugee camps.

8.   Yet he lashed out at civilians for spreading panic with false rumors about the spread of hostilities.

9.   An IFOR spokesman in Sarajevo, commander Max Marriner told AFP that sites had been specially selected in uninhabited areas to avoid spreading panic among the civilian population.

10.   Automatic weapons fire rang out and explosions rocked the capital Friday afternoon, spreading panic among residents as the army appeared to be waging pitched battles against Hutu militias.