1.   Meanwhile, the specific threats posed by the new Reagan administration were very real.

2.   It can be triggered by long-standing discontentment with body weight and shape or by specific threats to individual or family adaptation.

3.   Although no specific threats have been publicized, the risks have struck a public nerve.

4.   Although the bank received no specific threats, Bank of America offices in selected buildings across the nation were shut by company officials.

5.   And bomb-sniffing dogs have been used at Avery Fisher Hall, although Davis said that this was a precaution, not a response to a specific threat.

6.   And the statement issued Monday, which followed inconclusive meetings in Baghdad last week between the Iraqis and the chief arms inspector, contained no specific threats.

7.   And, in fact, there was specific threat information about the president.

8.   At the news conference Friday, Menino also said he had not been made aware of any specific threats by Ashcroft.

9.   But he did not make any specific threats against Clinton or any other federal official.

10.   But Moore, like other officials around the United States, stressed that there was no specific threat that led to the closings.