1.   A fifty-minute programme about green slime to launch a series that is going to take thirteen hours?

2.   With an uneasy peace prevailing along the border the international community launched a series of missions to defuse the crisis.

3.   Towards the end of the month the military launched a series of air attacks on LTTE positions in Jaffna town itself and elsewhere on the peninsula.

4.   Israel launched a series of air attacks on Palestinian and Hezbollah camps in southern Lebanon in early July.

5.   At dusk, just hours after the bombing, Israeli warplanes launched a series of raids.

6.   Baby-G has launched a series of colorful watches in hues such as Waterfall Blue, Tropical Oasis and Coral Pink.

7.   Bosley launched a series of attacks against Harmon for promoting his sons, also policemen, over better-qualified officers, but that mud did not stick.

8.   A proven strategy of winter storms is to launch a series of attacks rather than mounting a single onslaught.

9.   A Senate panel launched a series of hearings Thursday examining ebonics and whether federal dollars should be spent on black English programs designed to help underachieving African-American students.

10.   But even in the rosy days when the series first was launched, Aiello was aware of those risks, and indeed embraced them.