11.   A growing scandal at Texaco Inc. claimed its first casualties.

12.   Advocacy groups called it the first casualty of the violent backlash, and it prompted the prime minister of India to call President Bush.

13.   But -- with me at least -- common sense is the first casualty when a computer malfunction puts me in a panic.

14.   Chapman was the first American military casualty in Afghanistan as a result of enemy fire.

15.   CIA special operations agent Michael Spann was the first casualty of the war in Afghanistan.

16.   Commentators and historians are fond of saying that the first casualty of war is truth.

17.   Civilian lives were the first casualties of this war.

18.   Common sense is often the first casualty of a snowstorm.

19.   Dr. Michael Carlton is awaiting the first casualties in the battle of the bellyache.

20.   Dignity was the first casualty.