1.   The biggest threat to standards remains the state of the economy.

2.   Americans are deployed in combat arenas overseas, and at home there remains the threat of additional terror attacks.

3.   As it turned out, the threat this time remained just that, a threat.

4.   Bret has been downgraded to tropical storm, but the threat of flood remains.

5.   Bret has been downgraded to tropical storm, but flood threat remains.

6.   But the major threat remains, as always, within.

7.   But the threat of miscalculation remains.

8.   But threats do remain, friends of Rushdie said.

9.   But the threat remains one of the most critical security challenges facing the United States, the report concludes.