1.   As demand for PCs slowed during the last year, Intel led Advanced Micro on a brutal pricing war that cut sharply into profits.

2.   A brutal war it has been.

3.   But it was badly damaged by Microsoft in a brutal marketing war and was forced to find a buyer to bail it out of financial straits.

4.   Children barely big enough to shoulder a weapon have been involved in a very brutal war in Sierra Leone marked by amputations of limbs and the terrorizing of villages.

5.   Five years of brutal war ensued, followed by a defeat for the American-backed forces.

6.   For days the fighting raged, as fiercely as it ever has in this particularly brutal war.

7.   Four years after the end of a brutal war, Bosnia-Herzegovina and its capital city of Sarajevo have come far toward healing the wounds.

8.   He has not only endured but won two decades of brutal corporate war.

9.   Here a year ago American diplomats led the way to the Dayton agreement that stopped the brutal war in Bosnia.

10.   In a world racked by terrorism and commercialism and brutal wars, the Olympics somehow manage to make for a few moments of peace and unity.