31.   Chambers said the greatest competitive threat to Cisco came not from the established players in networking but from new smaller companies.

32.   Don saw two or three salespeople scatter, and the aisles emptied, as if a bomb threat had just come in.

33.   During the Cold War, when the only real missile threat to America came from the Soviet Union, building missile defenses was rightly seen as a bad idea.

34.   Even in his current weakened position, Yeltsin still has the power to make such threats come true, which may be enough to give his opposition pause.

35.   Erik said that although the death threats came from his father, he feared his mother, too.

36.   First, he said, came the threat to break his legs.

37.   Gershwin said the single biggest threat could come from foreign governments, rather than rogue terrorists or lone hackers.

38.   Hate-mail and phone threats come courtesy of a disgruntled city employee, Brown says.

39.   Hauben, the Net historian, said a bigger threat comes from the lack of government involvement in the Internet and the commercialization of Web resources.

40.   His threat came in a speech marking the seventh anniversary of the start of the Persian Gulf war.