Planning your meals in advance is a money-saving triple threat that will keep your savings account in the black.

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That thinking leads to diminished opportunities for dancers, who need hours onstage to become a triple threat like Charlotte d'Amboise.

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You have to be like the singer, actress and dancer a triple threat.

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Slow down now and you will move faster, further and with greater purpose later--even when, or especially when, you are staring down the triple threat of complexity, speed and uncertainty.

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Together they form a triple threat for total returns.

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While the connectivity, ubiquity and carrier subsidization of smartphones make them a triple threat, tablets have also had an impact on several device types that attained a degree of traction, such as netbooks and e-readers.

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Taking a cure from NES controllers of yore, the mouse also packs a so-called "Triple Threat" button, which will let you get off three shots with a single click, or cut those exhausting double-clicking tasks in half.

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Ultimately, cardiologists hope to create a powerful new triple-threat cocktail combining today's statin drugs for lowering bad cholesterol (like Lipitor) with new compounds to boost good cholesterol and other drugs that would directly reduce vessel-wall inflammation.

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And Phillips Odowo is a serious threat in the triple jump, as is Tiffany Porter in the 100 meter hurdles.

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Meanwhile Moody's Investor Services said there was no imminent threat to the triple-A sovereign ratings of Britain and the United States for the time being.

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The UK's triple A rating is under threat.

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The threat comes just days after triple suicide attacks in the Saudi capital of Riyadh targeted residential compounds housing Americans and other Westerners.

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South Korea has announced a deal with the US to almost triple the range of its ballistic missile system, saying this will counter the threat from North Korea.

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