51.   European defense ministries were shocked by their own slow and cumbersome reaction and by technological gaps with the United States that the war over Kosovo revealed.

52.   Even if the votes are not held this year, the proposals have opened a major new front in the legislative war over environmental issues.

53.   Even anti-smoking advocates, content to have won the war over the dining room, have shifted their crusade to the bar.

54.   First, there were the wars over leashing dogs.

55.   For certain artists, sampling seems to have become another battlefront in the war over the morality of rap music.

56.   For example, the office of the U.S. trade representative threatened to start a trade war over a proposed Canadian law intended to protect Canadian magazines.

57.   For most of the last year, you could not give Internet companies away, and the prospect of a bidding war over any of them was unheard of.

58.   For months, Democrats and Republicans have tried to gain an advantage in a public relations war over which side is fielding the best candidates.

59.   For the last two months, these two have waged an intense, public and amusing feudal war over title and fiefdom.

60.   For weeks, the two men were practically at war over the issue.