71.   Bank of Boston has talked for years about focusing the company on what it does best.

72.   Bennett, a man who seems capable of talking nonstop for hours, pauses.

73.   Besides, the lengthy recovery would make it an ideal time to start a family, something Smyers and King had been talking about for a long time.

74.   Billy was the star of my California boyhood, and nowadays we get on the phone and talk for hours.

75.   Boeing and McDonnell Douglas had talked for three years about a possible merger, but the deal came together in the past week, executives from both companies said.

76.   ----- One national report had the Patriots talking trade for Barry Sanders.

77.   A former inspector with Boston Scientific, Aghamianz says he and his wife had talked for a while about his desire to stay home with their first child.

78.   A table of Frenchmen ordered a bottle of wine before looking at the menu and talked for an unbelievably long time before ordering.

79.   A woman can visit an old friend for two weeks, come home, call the same friend that night and talk for three hours.

80.   A Tunisian knows a few words of English, a Louisianian knows a bit of Cajun French, and somehow they end up talking for an hour.