1.   It ended an era born from drug smuggling.

2.   Annan then went to Baghdad and effectively ended an era.

3.   -- Colombia ended an era of state monopoly of its television industry by awarding two licenses to operate new private channels.

4.   A Fox victory would end an era of one-party rule that is all that a vast majority of Mexicans has ever known.

5.   Chip industry executives and politicians feared that the sale would touch off a chain of events ending an era of American technological supremacy.

6.   Colombia ended an era of state monopoly of its television industry by awarding two licenses to operate new private channels.

7.   Dean Smith, the coach whose basketball lineage traces from James Naismith and the first peach basket, formally ended an era Thursday.

8.   For all intents and purposes, it also ended an era.

9.   He said he also will end an era of negative campaigning.

10.   In the distance was the sound of axes chopping down the trees, symbolically ending an era.