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Re "Criticism of Firing by NPR Heightens as Broadcaster Defends the Decision" (Business Day, Oct. 23): Juan Williams, an analyst who was employed by both NPR and Fox News, is certainly entitled to his feeling that seeing people in "Muslim garb" on a plane makes him uneasy.

The urgency for survival heightens as his space equipment malfunctions, and the lower-pressurized atmosphere seeks to destroy his existence.

The buzz heightened as red, white and blue pompoms were handed out for the approaching ritual.

But fears about interference will be heightened as long as stations are carrying both analog and digital signals.

Indeed, the specialness of Britain's position is heightened as other European countries lose faith in a military solution.

"These concerns have been heightened as more and more information comes out about his aggressive attempts to undermine these rights".

Fear, the lifeblood of Trump's campaign, is heightened as those who agree with him begin to feel persecuted for doing so.

Concerns about a jobless recovery were heightened as the unemployment rate crept stubbornly upward despite the country's slow movement out of recession.

The tension has been heightened as Citizenship and Immigration Services, a branch of the Department of Homeland Security, begins planning for that path, in case a bill authorizing one is passed.

His thoughtful interpretive ideas included playing the beginning of the final movement particularly slowly, so that the sense of drama was heightened as the pace quickened later.

Such fears have been heightened as the Obama administration nears a decision on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry a type of Canadian crude to American refineries on the Gulf Coast that is especially difficult to clean if spilled.