1.   Distracted by other issues and trying not to show disunity, members of Congress have made few comments about the widening rift.

2.   The White House meeting today comes amid a widening rift among Republicans in Congress about whether to include tax cuts in their budget plan.

3.   Feuding Bosnian Serb leaders met Friday, but failed to bridge a widening rift over the distribution of power in their half of Bosnia.

4.   Feuding Bosnian Serb leaders met Friday but failed to bridge their widening rift over the distribution of power in their half of Bosnia.

5.   Hundreds of police patrolled the streets of this troubled city in northern England Sunday night as community leaders wrestled with a widening racial rift.

6.   In a widening rift, Egypt has promised to block what it considers efforts by Jordan to help Iraqi opposition groups topple Saddam Hussein, Arab diplomats said Tuesday.

7.   Instead of shepherding negotiations on the situation in Burundi, international mediators are now having to focus their attention on the widening rift between the two neighboring countries.

8.   Instead, international mediators are now having to focus their attention on the widening rift between the two neighboring countries.

9.   It also came on the eve of a visit to Moscow by Deputy Secretary Strobe Talbott, charged with trying to heal the widening rift between Washington and Moscow.

10.   Stepashin tried to put a good spin on the outcome, denying speculation of a widening rift between him and Aksyonenko.