As open conflict with Pakistan looms, the Ghosts uncover proof that they've been targeting the wrong enemy.

Europe at this time was viewed as having lost its morality, and China's rise in power led to a fear that a global conflict loomed.

But as energy costs soar, economic growth is stymied and potential conflict looms.

They question whether the United Nations, as it is constituted, can have anything more than an ad-hoc role when armed conflict looms.

But when contact and, in a fashion, conflict with other and larger worlds loomed nearer, prospects seemed less bright.

Abroad, the Iraq war lingers painfully while other potential conflicts loom in Iran and elsewhere.

Virginia expanded her militia as the conflict with Great Britain loomed.

But that neighbor, the United States, indubitably existed, and conflict loomed.

But an even bloodier conflict loomed in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Continued financial turmoil, growing labor-management confrontation, unhappy passengers and possible international conflict are looming.