"But the fact is that every time bond yields go higher, the rise threatens to reduce or wipe out growth."

Sea-level rise will also threaten certain nesting sites that are located too close to the water.

'The rise in base rates does not unduly threaten the shape of the economy and the market going into 1990-91', he said.

But a one- or two-year rise in deficits threatens nothing important.

But the explosive rise of electronic commerce threatens to turn a leak into a flood.

If the rise in long-term interest rates threatens economic recovery, then so does the sharp rally in the yen.

Not all economists are convinced, however, that the recent rise in wages threatens to push inflation back up.

The massive rise in food prices is threatening the stability of the country, however.

A two-degree rise in temperature threatens 25 percent of all plant and animal species on the planet with extinction.

But the pound, whose strong, sustained rise of recent months threatens to hurt British exports, remained in demand, currency dealers said.