41.   Today, as then, a gift may narrow regional differences.

42.   Tuesday night, an official close to the negotiations said that the two sides had considerably narrowed their differences over wages.

43.   U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell worked on narrowing differences among the allies during talks in Budapest Tuesday and Wednesday.

44.   When the task force meets Monday in Washington, the members will focus on narrowing their differences over wages and hours.

45.   While House and Senate negotiators were narrowing their differences with the White House on these and other resolved issues, the bill ultimately fell victim to the calendar.

46.   Years of arguments between Washington and its allies over this strategy with Cuba have failed to narrow their differences.

47.   Palestinian officials, insisting on anonymity, said the differences had been narrowed to about one percent of the West Bank.

48.   Palestinians and Israelis said Monday that the two sides appeared to be narrowing their differences.

49.   Palestinians and Israelis said Monday that the two sides appeared to be narrowing their differences over Hebron.

50.   Presidents of the five states bordering the oil-rich Caspian Sea gathered Tuesday in Turkmenistan to try to narrow their differences over how to divide its underwater bounty.