1.   The peace process has ground to a halt while Israel struggles to form a new government.

2.   A New Mexican candidate for Secretary of Indian Affairs says the nominating process has ground to a halt.

3.   But, the process has ground on.

4.   By mid-March, however, the entire process ground to a halt in mutual recriminations.

5.   In the first four months the process nearly ground to a halt from inaction.

6.   The process is grinding to a halt amid the more than three months of often bloody Israeli-Palestinian fighting.

7.   The roaring impeachment process is slowly grinding to a conclusion, with it all but certain President Clinton will hang on to his job.

8.   What is beyond question is that unless the White House dispatches a heavyweight political deal-maker, the Republican leadership will let the process grind through the fall.

9.   While the bribery scandal dissipated, the bankruptcy process grinds on.

10.   In the meantime, the appeals process will grind on.