The conflicting views were starkly apparent at a news conference given by President Alija Izetbegovic, the 68-year-old Muslim leader who heads the Bosnian Government.

That erosion was starkly apparent in the company's second-quarter financial results, which were also announced yesterday.

A shock of rope-thick hairs dark red as iron rust covered her head while her gills and finger-webs were starkly apparent.

Those changes are starkly apparent in insurance.

It becomes clearer in "Home", where the sheer wrongness of Boughton's attitude to race is made starkly apparent.

The depth of feeling against Mr. Lindsay became starkly apparent when a huge snowstorm buried eastern Queens in 1969.

The decline in foreign buying of Treasuries has become starkly apparent.

The virulence of the Iraqi Government campaign against Shiite rebels in the southern marshlands is starkly apparent.

The struggles of rural and small town life are starkly apparent in Silverton.

Yet it was not until the murder trial, held in early April, that the full extent of Doctor Minor's illness became starkly apparent.