1.   But some state officials say that the cuts are necessary to get soaring Medicaid costs under control, and that the hospitals are exaggerating the threat to their survival.

2.   But there are two reasons to believe that Greenspan is exaggerating the threat.

3.   But, the officials said, Justice Department officials did not want to exaggerate the threat of terrorism, and were wary of offering conclusions without clear-cut evidence.

4.   Dole exaggerates the threat.

5.   For its part, the United States sometimes exaggerates the threat of the Bosnian Serb army to keep out U.S. combat troops.

6.   His father and his lawyers say that Jordan has exaggerated the threat of the millennium plot to bolster its ties with the United States.

7.   Other executives have begun denouncing the American media, arguing that it is exaggerating the threat to make a better story when China takes the reins.

8.   Perhaps the Fed exaggerates the threat, but its judgment over the past few years has been sound.

9.   Proponents also exaggerate the threat of current deficits, which are modest compared with the size of the economy, and falling.

10.   Putin acknowledged the growing risk of such an attack, but he told Clinton that the United States has exaggerated the threat.