1.   The two groups met for informal talks.

2.   The accord resulted from informal talks held over the previous year.

3.   He offered to visit Amman, Damascus or Beirut for talks with regional leaders and suggested that a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation might visit Jerusalem for informal talks.

4.   An effort to end the strike failed last Tuesday, when WHX Chairman Ronald LaBow and the United Steelworkers of America broke off informal talks.

5.   Behind the scenes, meanwhile, White House aides are continuing informal talks with tobacco company officials in hopes of extracting further concessions.

6.   A coalition of government regulators, shippers and conservationists took years of informal talks, negotiations and approvals at various levels to hammer out the voluntary compromise.

7.   After four days of not talking to each other, negotiating teams from GM and the union began informal talks on Monday night.

8.   But if a strike causes severe economic disruption and there is no prospect of a settlement from informal talks, look for Clinton to appoint an emergency board.

9.   But the Walters said that press accounts in Georgia and informal talks with Georgian officials had forced it to cancel the show.

10.   Chinese think tank specialists speak of a possible breakthrough in informal talks quietly going on between intermediaries for the Vatican and the Chinese government.