1.   Authorities at first speculated that Woods might have taken the children as revenge against their mother, Schwana Patterson, because she reported the burglary.

2.   Authorities speculate that Duarte may have been targeted by drug dealers in retaliation for his remarks.

3.   Authorities speculated that Corder evaded radar detection by flying at a low level and failing to use a transponder, a device that alerts radar of an approaching aircraft.

4.   Authorities have speculated that hill hopping in June caused the death of Independence teen-ager Mike Motter, who was riding in a car that also hit a power pole.

5.   Law enforcement authorities have speculated that Cox masterminded his disappearance.

6.   No one claimed responsibility for the blast, but authorities speculated it was timed by dissident Irish republicans to disrupt the power-sharing Northern Ireland government.

7.   Originally, the authorities speculated the Ressam was planning to blow up the Seattle Space Needle.

8.   Some authorities speculate, for example, that the increase in the number of criminals in prison means that more repeat offenders are being kept off the street.

9.   Some federal authorities have speculated that that bombing was a practice run for McVeigh.

10.   They are headed by Monte Kim Miller, who authorities speculate intends to die in some sort of violence at the end of the millennium.