11.   Those discussions involve both free agents who re-sign with their teams under the so-called Larry Bird exception and players who are looking for deals with new clubs.

12.   Those discussions usually involve only a few people, but waste the time of everyone else at the meeting.

13.   What is there to fear, they say, as long as discussions do not involve illegal acts or abuse of power?

14.   A spokesman for Credit Suisse Group reiterated Thursday that the discussions involve only the major commercial banks.

15.   But Moussa said the discussions will involve the current deadlock in the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

16.   But the major discussions involved the proposed move of the Rams to St. Louis.

17.   Carlton Communications gave no details of the talks with Arsenal or say whether the discussions involved the possible purchase of the Premier League champions.

18.   Discussions involve issues ranging from peacekeeping to stamping out smuggling of nuclear material.

19.   He declined to say whom the discussions involved.

20.   He said the discussions have involved building a park on Lantau Island, where the new international airport was built.