"Too big to fail, " too many jobs at stake, too much of the nation's manufacturing capability at risk are among the considerations that will justify government intervention on a massive scale.

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The FBI said the threat level for those states and the nation as a whole remains at "yellow, " or "elevated, " the third of five levels of risk according to the government's newly devised threat alert system.

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