This week a leading credit agency warned that Mrs. Whitman's plan to borrow $2.7 billion to balance the state budget and keep the state pension system solvent could jeopardize New Jersey's high credit rating.

Chinatown merchants and leaders fear the plan will jeopardize local businesses, which depend on the subway stop for patronage.

Makers of wine and spirits said the plan would jeopardize one of the country's leading export industries.

The plan to replace thousands of contract screeners - even those with years of experience - with federal workers who must be trained and deployed by Nov. 19 jeopardizes safety and wastes taxpayer dollars.

When Bowman returns to the ship with Poole's body, Hal refuses to let him in, stating that the astronaut's plan to deactivate him jeopardizes the mission.

In Baiting Hollow, environmentalists have attacked the development of a 36-hole golf resort on Long Island Sound, saying the plan jeopardizes a rare stand of dwarf beech trees.

They asserted that the Mayor's plan would jeopardize the new campaign financing system that the Council had adopted just two weeks ago in overriding a mayoral veto.

A plan by New York City budget officials to eliminate a legal-services program from next year's budget could jeopardize the city's efforts to stop using welfare hotels to house homeless families, city social-service officials say.

Others worry that the governor's plan to use the tobacco settlement money to close the shortfall might jeopardize the state's commitment in the future to other priorities covered by H.C.R.A., like raising salaries for hospital workers.

They sent thousands of letters to the Governor's office saying the plan could jeopardize the high quality of public education they have come to expect.