The requirement 'in trade or commerce' creates a significant threshold issue.

Defense spending, once the great threshold issue separating hawks from doves, has been laid to rest.

But the threshold issue is not the core of the insurance problem in New Jersey, he said.

"Civil rights is a threshold issue, an emotional issue for blacks," he said.

But the threshold issue is will companies want to buy at one stop.

"This plan fails the fundamental threshold issue of being honest."

Eye contact, for example, is a crucial threshold issue.

"And that has to be a threshold issue."

"This time, I think national security will be a fundamental threshold issue that anybody challenging Bush is going to have to meet."

Choice is a threshold issue in California.