1.   Any forecast for a relatively quick return to economic health must assume decisive U.S. leadership and a forceful response to our terrorist enemies.

2.   But both ordinary citizens and the government are forging a forceful response.

3.   Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai warned this week that any further shooting by Palestinians would be met with a forceful response.

4.   Speaking on Israeli television, Peres promised a forceful response to the assault, which the police blamed on the extremist group Islamic Jihad.

5.   Criticism of Cuba -- also a yearly ritual -- provoked the most forceful response outside the U.N. debating chambers.

6.   She declined to say whether the US would make a preemptive strike against Iraq but she said that crossing the Kuwaiti border will draw a forceful response.