1.   As the Soviet threat has faded, allied strains have surfaced, sometimes in substance, sometimes in style.

2.   Bell warns the veto threat has to be applied sparingly.

3.   But now, the very threat of chaos has both sides suddenly anxious to cooperate.

4.   But so far the threat has yet to materialize.

5.   But threats have nothing to do with it.

6.   In a business in which the profit margins are thin and size matters, the Wal-Mart threat has supermarket companies scrambling to make acquisitions.

7.   In the short term, the threat had the intended effect.

8.   Since they were first made last year, western embassies have twice evacuated staff, while the threats have yet to be made good.

9.   That threat could have to do in part with the fallibility of new technologies.

10.   The looming threat has travel agents and their online counterparts complaining to politicians and federal regulators.