1.   Beating swords into plowshares is as old as the Bible, as old as war itself.

2.   So while beating swords into plowshares may make sense as a national policy, it is tough on the companies that make plowshares.

3.   Some companies are content to beat swords into plowshares.

4.   They are making history here, beating swords not into plowshares, but into nothing at all.

5.   Heeding the biblical admonition to beat swords into plowshares, a Methodist congregation plans to build its sanctuary practically on top of what was once a nuclear missile silo.