21.   Republicans dismissed the threat, saying the Senate has full control over whom to depose, while at the same time promising fairness to the White House.

22.   Still, Fran Mendez, senior case manager at BEAT AIDS in San Antonio, worries that too many younger people are dismissing the threat of AIDS.

23.   The dollar surged and European bonds advanced as the Bundesbank dismissed the threat of inflation and kept the door open for further reductions.

24.   The Teamsters dismissed the threat of replacement workers as a scare tactic.

25.   Turner Broadcasting executives dismiss the threat as a negotiating ploy, saying TNT is well worth the rate increase.

26.   Arafat dismissed the threats with a wave of the hand.

27.   But Moscow dismisses such threats as hypothetical and says the national missile defense would tilt the strategic balance in the U.S. favor.

28.   But Russia dismisses such threats as hypothetical and says the national missile defense would tilt the strategic balance in the U.S. favor.

29.   But in the interview Thursday, Mubarak dismissed any threat that Turabi posed to Egypt.

30.   Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd said he hoped the action would bring about greater calm, and dismissed threats by Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to retaliate against U.N. troops.