61.   Presidents have long waved their veto authority in budget talks as a way of alerting Congress in advance to what they will and will not accept.

62.   President Lee Teng-hui recently said Taiwan and China should conduct talks as two equal states.

63.   Religious politicians dismiss such talk as hyperbole and politics, arguing that the religious are not seeking or achieving anything new.

64.   Rosenblum described her talk as social history and otherwise declined to comment.

65.   Russian officials described the talks as fruitful.

66.   Sahuaros President Ali Alexander has spoken with Michael Bidwill, Cardinals vice president and general counsel, about sharing a stadium but characterized those talks as premature.

67.   Some dismiss all such talk as nonsense.

68.   Some dismiss all the talk as too gossipy for the lofty brows of Cambridge even to contemplate.

69.   Story will use start of talks as peg to look at the big picture.

70.   Technology proponents dismiss such talk as neo-Luddite arguments based on the hypothetical rather than the practical.