1.   In a news conference Friday, Teamsters president Ronald Carey suggested gloomily that the two sides were basically repeating the same divergent messages.

2.   Weld and Kerry, with their divergent messages on economic and fiscal issues, are expected to battle evenly among affluent suburban areas of the county.

3.   Heralding further difficulties, the governing partners took away divergent messages from voters.

4.   Suggesting difficulties ahead, the coalition partners took away divergent messages from voters.