Executions are taking place at an alarming rate.

The information was incomplete, but it was solid and alarming.

Fortunately, the situation appears to be less alarming.

From a broader geopolitical perspective, the situation becomes alarming.

The situation is even more discouraging when we look at the particulars.

Like oxygen being sucked out of our metaphorical airplane in midflight, deleveraging destabilizes societies and undermines the traditional effectiveness of official policies.

Undoubtedly, the Great Recession triggered by the global financial crisis has contributed to this worrisome situation.

First, all three economic areas are struggling with unsettling de leveraging dynamics.

The most worrisome underlying threat is the increase in fighting between Sunni and Shia Muslims.

Indeed, it is a question that also speaks to the increasingly worrisome outlook for the global economy.

One reason, not necessarily worrying, has to do with labor market reforms.

These may be reasonable assumptions, but the estimate was deeply unsettling to many.

While the epidemiological statistics are alarming, the death rate has declined in recent weeks, from 7.6 to 3.6 .

Not trusting that officials will be candid about alarming information, we rely more on rumors.

But this figure is not reported widely because it is much less alarming.

And here's the really alarming part we don't fully understand the long term impact of multiple injuries.

But this figure is not reported widely because it is much less alarming.

In recent years, the government has developed a disturbing tendency to label anyone who expresses dissent as a terrorist.

This situation is both understandable and increasingly unsettling for America s well being and that of the global economy.

The election is a disaster for Kenya, but the response of the international community, led by the US, is no less distressing.

Some self anointed seers portray the problem as being one of finite natural resources, with the world running out of critical commodities at an alarming rate.

Mexico City As I reflect on my troubled country, the lyrics of a Bruce Springsteen song come to mind We are far, far away from home.

Josh Stearns ( jcstearns), writing for Boing Boing, sees this case as just the latest one of a disturbing tendency to curb freedom of information

Berezina informed Kashin of her discovery, and he soon wrote a column about the incidents and the alarming trend, titling it Russian Ebola.

And, most ironic of all, Israel, a nation state built by a people despised for their cosmopolitanism, has become a prime symbol of this disturbing trend.

Similarly, youth are becoming involved in conflict around the world with alarming frequency, either as victims or, just as tragically, as soldiers. More than half of those who are of working age are jobless, according to a new International Labor Organization report.

Equally worrisome is the prospect of deep, across the board cuts in the US defense budget at a time when many rising powers are increasing their defense spending.

But coming as it does only one month after the alarming Russian Georgian confrontation, it may offer real hope that tensions in the volatile Caucasus region can be eased.

The Trustees of the US Medicare Trust Funds (providing medical services to the retired) estimate that their unfunded obligations have a present value of 5.9 trillion 50 larger than America's official publicly held national debt. The potential for budgetary shortfall with social security and health care is even worse in Europe and Japan, due to their more troublesome demographics.

The potential for budgetary shortfall with social security and health care is even worse in Europe and Japan, due to their more troublesome demographics.

Such political paralysis on key economic issues is increasingly unsettling for the US private sector, and for other countries that rely on a strong US at the core of the global economy.

The power of the foreign press is worrisome for those with an interest in Venezuela's welfare, because perceptions affect realities, including foreign investment, risk premiums on debt, tourism and capital outflows.

Indeed, their serene patience stands in stark contrast to the anxious reticence of Russian leaders, who have yet to surmount the humiliation that Russia suffered as a result of the Soviet Union s disintegration at the end of the Cold War.

Today, many blame today's alarming economic conditions in the world's industrial core more than a decade of stagnation in Japan, deflation there and in Germany, recession in Germany on other bad decisions. Japanese and European central bankers did not lower interest rates far enough fast enough, banking sector regulators shied at the jump in speculative lending, and politicians were unwilling to expand fiscal policy sufficiently.

Today, many blame today's alarming economic conditions in the world's industrial core more than a decade of stagnation in Japan, deflation there and in Germany, recession in Germany on other bad decisions.