21.   If government tried to drive unemployment below its so-called natural rate, it would accelerate inflation, threatening monetary stability and eventually forcing the Federal Reserve to crack down.

22.   If an anti-corruption purge gathers momentum, it may threaten party stability at a sensitive and potentially fractious moment in the leadership transition.

23.   It threatens the stability of the Balkans but not of Western Europe.

24.   It would also threaten the stability of a country just beginning to blossom as a multiparty democracy.

25.   Its advanced weapons programs, self-imposed isolation and lack of transparency threaten regional stability.

26.   Latin Americans may have little enthusiasm for extending market reforms, but neither will many of them endorse radical adventures which threaten economic stability.

27.   Low interest rates in the United States mean that those in Asia can go lower still without threatening currency stability.

28.   Mexico saw its economic stability threatened Wednesday as the peso came under heavy new pressure after its devaluation Tuesday.

29.   Opposition to the military strikes is threatening the stability of Pakistan.

30.   Periodic financial crises are likely to threaten the stability of global capital markets for another decade or so.