41.   Indian President Shanker Dayal Sharma added his voice to calls for renewed talks with Pakistan on Thursday.

42.   Investors were nervous amid renewed talk that interest rates might rise.

43.   Meanwhile, the dollar was higher after it advanced in overnight New York trading on renewed talk of higher interest rates in the United States.

44.   No plans had been announced for renewed talks between the union and employers.

45.   On Monday, Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee offered renewed talks with Pakistan, but his conditions were vague.

46.   Renewed talk that a foreign player could purchase a stake in SQM also boosted the market.

47.   Prospects for renewed talks were uncertain.

48.   Renewed talks early Saturday were aimed at getting the provincial government to improve its offer on the key issue of wages.

49.   Renewed talks could go a long way toward easing tensions on the Korean Peninsula, one of the last outposts of the Cold War.

50.   Syrian Vice President Abdul-Halim Khaddam urged the renewed talks in a speech in Damascus.