1.  Saibou accused a handful of demagogic trade unionists of engaging in vandalism to plunge the country into chaos, and threatened action against those whom he called union agitators.

2.  Crotty said that he spoke of the threatened action in his oral arguments in the state Supreme Court, and that the mayor was behind the strategy.

3.  Israel has threatened military action to retake areas already given to Palestinians and threatened to incorporate into Israel large disputed portions of land in the West Bank.

4.  Last year, Intuit was courted by Microsoft Corp. until delays and threatened antitrust action prompted Microsoft to scuttle the plan.

5.  Paula Dobriansky, undersecretary of state for global affairs, said the United States could vanquish terrorism only by coupling threatened military action with humanitarian relief.

6.  The banks got a brief respite after a three-month moratorium was announced by U.S. city and state financial officers who had threatened punitive action.

7.  The move was immediately criticized by Latino leaders and civil rights groups, who called the action mean-spirited and threatened legal action to block it.

8.  The Libyan plant has drawn fire from Defense Secretary William J. Perry, who last week all but threatened military action if the Libyans did not shut it down.

9.  The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board delayed approval because of threatened legal action.

10.  This week, the banks got a brief respite after a three-month moratorium was announced by U.S. city and state financial officers who had threatened punitive action.