41.   NATO officials said that the Kosovo Liberation Army was very active inside Kosovo but was suffering heavy casualties.

42.   NATO avoided a ground war, fearing heavy allied casualties.

43.   On Monday, Rumsfeld sought to puncture Taliban claims of heavy civilian casualties, of a hospital bombed in Herat, and of shooting down U.S. aircraft.

44.   Opposition also comes from within the military and the police, which have both suffered heavy casualties from clashes with Kurdish rebels and left-wing extremists.

45.   Parallel with those reactions was a new wave of questioning about the utility of continuing to operate inside Lebanon, where Israeli troops have taken heavy casualties this year.

46.   Russia says it wants to wipe out Islamic militants who invaded neighboring Dagestan in August and September, inflicting heavy casualties on Russian troops before retreating back into Chechnya.

47.   Russian forces have suffered heavy casualties but have moved quickly across the northern plains to the outskirts of Grozny.

48.   Russian soldiers were ambushed and suffered heavy casualties in an early battle there, they say.

49.   Such an invasion, especially if undertaken for both main islands, would have led to very heavy casualties among American and Allied troops and Japanese civilians and military.

50.   That war lasted eight years, ending in defeat and heavy casualties.