11.   Administration officials have indicated that they would not mind if Primakov postponed his visit because of the threatened NATO strikes, which Russia opposes.

12.   But many business travelers at the airport said it is still too early to tell how the threatened strike might affect their travel plans.

13.   Clinton, who pulled back from the brink of threatened strikes against Iraq in the face of Russian objections last winter, is once again weighing such attacks.

14.   Crude oil prices jumped on concern a threatened strike by oil workers in Venezuela could disrupt oil production and exports to the U.S.

15.   General Motors Corp. and the International Union of Electrical Workers reached a tentative agreement that averts a threatened strike at two Kettering, Ohio, suspension-systems plants.

16.   In his first public remarks on the threatened strike, Clinton carefully avoided any hint of his plans for dealing with a work stoppage.

17.   In addition, Toronto-based Inco Ltd. reached a tentative agreement Friday with unions representing its miners in Sudbury, Ontario, a day before a threatened strike.

18.   In recent days, pilots have complained about minor harassment from co-workers who oppose the threatened strike.

19.   In his first public remarks on the threatened strike, Clinton carefully avoids any hint of his plans for dealing with a work stoppage.

20.   Just as suddenly, the federation called off the threatened strike a day later, ostensibly on patriotic grounds.