1.   Party officials have denied that there is any rift between ministers.

2.   A growing rift was apparent between Iran and Turkey over competition for influence among the newly independent Central Asian states and over the future role and shape of ECO.

3.   The rift had been total and, she had believed, final.

4.   He also denied there was a rift between himself and Hall.

5.   And by the next year, the rift was even more obvious.

6.   And people close to both men said this rift was not apparent to Reed when the merger was engineered earlier this year.

7.   As traumatic as the rift has been for the partners, clients of both firms have remained largely shielded from it, analysts said.

8.   Both denied that there was a rift between them.

9.   Brennan, reached at his vacation home Thursday, reiterated that there was no rift with Bogle, but he declined to say anything more.

10.   But as Jones explains it, the rift was as much due to the desire to regain something that was lost during those wild, breakthrough years.