1.   Gramm blocked action on the nomination with a filibuster that threatened to tie up the Senate with nonstop talk.

2.   Her nonstop talk, delivered in rich, lyrical tones, is interrupted by bursts of laughter.

3.   Hosted by neighboring Djibouti, Somalis gathered for five months of almost nonstop talks, culminating with the drafting of an interim constitution last August.

4.   In recent years, the nonstop talk made old-style filibusters a grueling endurance test has been replaced by a far more genteel form of parliamentary maneuvering.

5.   McCain talks nonstop to them on a bus.

6.   Neither side would say whether any progress was made in three straight days of almost nonstop talks.

7.   The nonstop talks were seen as a sign the two sides are pushing to hammer out an agreement before union officials from around the country meet Saturday in Detroit.

8.   The officials said that after the nearly nonstop talks, the two sides were exhausted.

9.   But the two sides agreed to press ahead with nonstop talks beginning Sunday.

10.   The settlement capped five days of virtually nonstop talks in which Herman sometimes participated to maintain pressure on the two sides.