1.   Production was severely disrupted in all departments during the afternoon as the shop stewards spread the message.

2.   And if political upheavals should ever disrupt production in the key exporting nation of Saudi Arabia, they say, the threat of another shortage would be real.

3.   A shutdown could have disrupted production by the weekend because most GM assembly plants use the Warren products.

4.   A warmer surface temperature would mean extremes in floods and droughts, higher ocean levels and disrupted food production, many climate scientists say.

5.   But Ms. Albright also acknowledged efforts by the Colombian National Police to defoliate coca fields, disrupt cocaine production and combat drug traffickers.

6.   Colombian rebels have blown up a oil pipeline, disrupting production by the U.S. company Occidental Petroleum Corp., a spokesman said.

7.   Crude futures rose on concern Tropical Storm Danny will disrupt oil production from the platforms in the Gulf of Mexico and deliveries to the U.S. Gulf Coast.

8.   Crude oil rose on concern that Norwegian oil workers will walk off the job this weekend, disrupting production.

9.   Copper futures rose to their highest price in more than a year as a variety of problems disrupt world production at a time when stockpiles are falling.

10.   Crude oil fell after Norwegian oil workers accepted contract offers, dropping plans for a strike that threatened to disrupt production.