31.   Many, like online jeweler Blue Nile and clothing store Estyle, offer products that general merchandise stores do not, to reduce the threat of price competition.

32.   Morrison stressed that Pilgrim stores now use more modern equipment, which has greatly reduced the threat of PERC contamination.

33.   Near Flagstaff and Williams, the Forest Service is experimenting with logging these small trees to reduce the threat of fire.

34.   Signs that inflation is in check come at a time when the Fed is considering raising interest rates again, reducing the threat of inflation even further.

35.   Some of the shuttle jets will not be used during the close-in maneuvering to reduce the threat.

36.   That threat has been reduced.

37.   The company points out that turning plutonium into MOX fuel and burning it in reactors could reduce the threat of nuclear weapons proliferation by cutting plutonium stockpiles.

38.   The commission claims such a move would increase the influence of Europe in world affairs and reduce the threat of aggression against a member state.

39.   The exploding bomblets would typically blast an area moments before the arrival of Apaches to reduce the threat of ground fire against the helicopters.

40.   The Fed typically boosts interest rates when the economy speeds up, to reduce the threat of inflation.