1.   Economists say they expect to see widespread unemployment, bankruptcies and possible social unrest this year as growth rates plummet and governments institute austerity measures.

2.   Gas station owners could bear the brunt of that unrest this year.

3.   Severe labor unrest this year has also slowed production.

4.   Residents contacted by telephone said that there had not been any recent fighting in Suai, which has been hit by sporadic unrest this year.

5.   School systems in New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Buffalo, N.Y., have also faced labor unrest this year.

6.   The ethnic Chinese minority has been the target of widespread unrest this year, as rioters angry over price increases have targeted their shops and homes.

7.   The first signs of industrial unrest this year appeared in April in Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world, in Tierra del Fuego province.

8.   Worker anger has spilled out in waves of unrest this year.

9.   Zimbabwe has seen food riots and serious unrest this year, which government critics blame on lack of effective democracy and chronic economic mismanagement.

10.   The chamber said intensified industrial unrest this year did not appear to have inhibited business optimism.