1.   In the first icy transatlantic blast, he pointedly refused to meet Premier John Major, who visits Washington later this month.

2.   Then as the first shrill blast pierced the air he slammed the car into gear and glared at her.

3.   As a result, people who had gone to help casualties of the first blast became victims themselves when the second bomb detonated.

4.   A car that had been moved from the rear of the building after the first blast takes the brunt of the second explosion, which injured seven people.

5.   A first blast of ire over soaring fuel prices is already being registered by American truckers, who have demonstrated twice in Washington in the past month.

6.   Abney said the first blast knocked him to the ground and sent shrapnel into the side of his left leg.

7.   Brent Fedyk had his first blast of Texas and liked it very much, thank you.

8.   By American accounts, the Kursk revved its turbines after the first blast, apparently trying to reach the surface, then plunged to the seabed after the second.

9.   By some accounts, a second bomb went off beneath another vehicle carrying police officers who were rushing to the scene of the first blast.

10.   Debris from the first blast, investigators said, most likely penetrated an adjacent building that housed highly flammable chemicals causing a second explosion.