Especially alarming are calls for the Fed to push the dollar so low that our trade deficit disappears.

A severe drop-off in his velocity was especially alarming.

Especially alarming is the news of a big increase among black teenagers, a group once believed to be curiously resistant to the teen smoking trend.

This in itself is neither surprising nor especially alarming.

The problem the state exemplifies, they say, is especially alarming at a time when states are gaining more responsibility in this area.

When he speaks again, his voice has a dreamy quality which Willie finds especially alarming.

But the researchers said today that because crack is so addictive, evidence of its use by a teen-ager should be especially alarming.

The situation facing Europeans there is especially alarming and it is very difficult to repatriate them.

The idea that the North would now offer such material to the highest bidder, as it does with its other advanced weapons, is especially alarming.

That prospect is especially alarming under the current Iranian and Palestinian leadership.