11.   But Mickey Levy, an economist at NationsBanc Montgomery Securities, points out that low unemployment no longer poses a serious inflation threat.

12.   By pushing interest rates higher at the slightest hint of an inflation threat, traders helped dampen business activity and lessen the likelihood of accelerating prices.

13.   By pushing interest rates higher at the slightest hint of an inflation threat, traders have helped dampen business activity and lessen the likelihood that prices increases will accelerate.

14.   By pushing interest rates higher at the slightest hint of an inflation threat, traders have helped dampen business activity and lessen the likelihood of accelerating prices.

15.   By pushing interest rates higher at the slightest hint of an inflation threat, traders have helped dampen business activity and lessened the likelihood of accelerating prices.

16.   Central bankers may already have enough evidence of a heightened inflation threat to justify an increase in bank rates, some investors say.

17.   Consumer prices barely budged in May as a slowing economy throttled back an inflation threat that seemed to be gathering momentum a month earlier.

18.   Denmark faces less of an inflation threat even though its economy stands to benefit from more exports and consumer spending, based on reports today.

19.   Even so, the inflation threat may force the central bank to limit growth.

20.   Expectations that the economy is improving enough to increase the inflation threat has driven yields more than three quarters of a percentage point higher since February.