1.   The last ditch collapse means the US is likely to go ahead with threatened sanctions on EC products.

2.   A partial agreement in July averted threatened sanctions by the United States against Japan and called for a more comprehensive cargo pact by the end of this month.

3.   A year after that meeting, the administration is still negotiating and while it has periodically threatened sanctions it has never invoked them.

4.   Despite the threatened sanctions, the school board has vowed to reject any attempt to resuscitate Belmont.

5.   Japanese officials said the threatened sanctions already are hitting Japanese car manufacturers, with most having stopped exporting luxury cars to the U.S.

6.   Only Honda Motor Co. has estimated how the threatened sanctions would hit company earnings.

7.   Talks between mid-level U.S. and Japanese officials to avert threatened sanctions on Japanese luxury car exports are scheduled to get underway later today in Geneva.

8.   The Butler report was expected to lead automatically to the threatened new sanctions.

9.   The cargo specialist is in for rough sledding if the threatened Japanese sanctions are adopted, says Lewins, the Gruntal analyst.

10.   The executives said they do not know what pressure their Japanese companies are placing on their government to resolve the threatened sanctions.