91.   This year they stepped up attempts to sell and talks were held with UK merchant bank Singer and Friedlander before negotiations started with First National.

92.   Granada managers held talks with union leaders about the job losses in London yesterday.

93.   PRIME Minister John Major was holding crisis talks today with European Commission president Jacques Delors over the looming world trade war.

94.   The Health Authority has agreed to hold further talks about regrading and pay.

95.   The United Nations Secretary General, Javier Perez del Cuellar asked the Security Council to hold talks on a decision by the Nicaraguan Contra rebels to postpone their demobilisation.

96.   Also, DirecTV and Nynex are holding talks for interactive programming.

97.   Also, in the afternoons, talks are held on the veranda.

98.   Although First Fidelity held talks with other potential suitors, First Union made the only offer, Terracciano said.

99.   Also, the talks would be held at the presidential level, an appropriate forum for discussions of war and peace.

100.   American Express Co. held talks to be acquired by Citicorp, only to see the approach collapse last week, people with knowledge of the discussions said.