21.   Primakov provided little clue as to what proposals both the United States and Russia will bring to the table to resolve the impasse.

22.   Renault CEO Louis Schweitzer asked me if I could think of a way to resolve that impasse.

23.   Since mid-summer France has also been circulating detailed proposals for resolving the impasse.

24.   Still, despite the lack of public support, Cohen said all the gulf nations would ultimately support a military strike if diplomacy failed to resolve the impasse.

25.   State Department officials expressed confidence that the Serbian leader would resolve the impasse.

26.   The agreement resolves an impasse on financing airport improvements that has held up airport aid from Washington since October.

27.   The defiance scuttles the most serious effort yet to resolve an impasse between state social workers and the small northwest Atlanta church.

28.   The teamsters have played on that uncertainty, refusing to divulge their plans, hoping that unsettled riders would put pressure on political leaders to resolve the impasse.

29.   The tough stands may complicate work next week for Republican congressional leaders, who plan to bring in their top guns to try to resolve the impasse.

30.   The tentative settlement came a day after Labor Secretary Robert Reich offered federal mediators to help resolve the impasse.