1.   After the talks shift to the Blair House, they will likely include Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, US officials said.

2.   But lately, the talk has shifted.

3.   But talk shifted to the war in Afghanistan, the terror attacks on the United States, and bin Laden.

4.   But snags developed early Sunday when the talks shifted to a camouflage tent at a hot and dusty airfield in Kumanovo, northwest of the Macedonian capital of Skopje.

5.   In April, the talk shifted to the possibility of default.

6.   In recent weeks, the talk has shifted to the likelihood of a lowering of interest rates to prop up the economy.

7.   In this company, then, it was perhaps inevitable that talk would shift to the Curse of the Bambino.

8.   Talk shifted to Afghanistan.

9.   The talk shifts to grazing cattle, to the coming planting and to the horse-mounted raiders who could scrape everything away again.

10.   The talks shifted to the acquisition mode late last week, according to Mullin.