1.   But external threats can make for improbable subdivision bedfellows.

2.   The police are investigating death threats made against the two men.

3.   A rising inflation threat would also make the Federal Reserve more likely to raise interest rates to cool the economy in coming months.

4.   All these threats have made travel agency a more difficult business, but by no means a doomed one.

5.   But like the other half-dozen anthrax threats made this month by mail and telephone, the report at the Glass House was a hoax.

6.   Clinton administration officials hope the latest Iraqi threat will make the Saudis and other gulf states more cooperative now.

7.   Ethnic Albanian rebels are spreading their influence to places they had not controlled before NATO threats made the Serbian government withdraw many police and army units.

8.   However, Rayford Kytle, a spokesman for the National Institutes of Health, says the threat of litigation makes the issue of consent forms vital.

9.   Instead of encouraging social change, threats of violence make people fearful and unwilling to consider new ideas.