1.   The commissioners agreed to restart talks as soon as possible.

2.   Amid the escalating rhetoric, it took Labor Secretary Alexis Herman four days to restart the talks.

3.   Analysts said that Perelman may have been bluffing, intending to restart stalled talks with Murdoch, chairman of News Corp., which owns the Fox TV network.

4.   And many Sri Lankans had assumed a Norwegian-brokered effort to restart talks had died with the airport attack.

5.   As recently as two weeks ago, a key demand on Milosevic for getting the talks restarted was withdrawal of security units used against ethnic Albanian civilians.

6.   Barak needs American liaisons to restart those talks.

7.   Behind the scenes, the tone has softened slightly, with Japanese officials now indicating some willingness to restart high-level talks prior to the deadline.

8.   A spokesman for Telefonica declined to comment on whether Villalonga was working to restart talks with KPN.

9.   But after criticism from business leaders, Clinton restarted talks with China, and White House officials hope a deal can be concluded swiftly.

10.   But in the last week, he has placed himself squarely in charge of efforts to get the peace talks restarted.