21.   Students had deferments from the draft, yet they worried about losing them if the war escalated.

22.   The good news is that low-intensity trade wars rarely escalate.

23.   The war has only escalated since.

24.   Their turf wars escalated the war on drugs and prompted states and the federal government to set mandatory minimum sentences.

25.   Wars escalate, though, because one side prefers the next step up the ladder to defeat.

26.   While the world this year was watching war escalate in Bosnia, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the U.N. secretary-general, traveled to Africa.

27.   Within days, the war of words escalated.

28.   A war escalates between private armies funded by landowners and leftist rebels.

29.   As the political ad war escalates in California, Gov. George W. Bush is under fire from his rival, Sen. John McCain, and from the Sierra Club.

30.   As the war of words escalates, the outgoing U.S. ambassador says the dreams of peace have turned into a nightmare.