1.   Farther south, showers and thunderstorms will be active near the western Gulf Coast, where moist winds from the Gulf of Mexico converge over land.

2.   Shaw made bets that prices of different types of bonds would converge over time, using complicated computer programs to identify securities poised to move.

3.   The overcrowded sector would be above South Dakota, as planes crossing the country from New York and Houston and Vancouver were scheduled to converge over the Great Plains.

4.   And with telephone calls and television seemingly destined to converge over the Internet, fiber optics will only play an increasingly important role in carrying all that communications traffic.

5.   But recent forecasts predict the growth rates will converge over the next couple years as the U.S. economy cools off.

6.   Madras controllers did not check again with Bangalore and both the planes converged over Belgaum city, Khola said.