11.   Rumsfeld also shared with NATO defense ministers top-secret threat assessments by American intelligence.

12.   Specialists are increasingly arguing that the developing field of threat assessment, used by the Secret Service to track potential assassins, can be applied to potentially violent students.

13.   The FBI threat assessment provides guidelines for determining if troubling statements by a high school student should be taken as a threat.

14.   The military has long done threat assessments, mainly in an effort to understand the probable success of tactics and attacks.

15.   The president added that every morning he looks at a threat assessment, an overview of the present dangers facing the United States.

16.   Washington should provide adequate financing for these purposes, but spending must be based on realistic needs, not inflated threat assessments or parochial congressional interests.

17.   Yet even as the president laid down a set of bellicose markers, his threat assessment appeared to be running ahead of operational planning.

18.   But much of the variance in cost estimates come from differing assumptions and threat assessments.

19.   NCEP, based in the Washington suburb of Camp Springs, Md., issues weekly national threat assessments for expected weather.

20.   The department said it will reassess the need for the program after obtaining a more complete threat assessment.