1.   Phoenix officials often talk of the helping hand they give to the less fortunate.

2.   Although BC officials would not talk specifically about Herren, they would talk in general about the sytesms in place to help student-athletes.

3.   Although airport officials have been talking to airlines for several years, none has signed up so far, not even little charter companies.

4.   And for the first time, city and county officials are openly talking about scrapping programs that help businesses owned by women or minorities.

5.   At least one Justice official has been talking to the independent investigators, though he or she has not yet been subpoenaed.

6.   At the Dallas school district, officials talked with FBI and police authorities Wednesday but said no added security measures were taken.

7.   At one time, Big West officials talked about an arrangement that could have served everyone.

8.   At the trade organization, its supposedly more potent successor, officials talk more about the art of gelling and coalescing than about making decisions.

9.   At the Justice Department, meanwhile, officials were talking to industry leaders about the ops-aps idea, and other short-term conduct remedies to go with it.

10.   Baseball officials have talked in the past about moving the Arizona Diamondbacks from the NL to the AL, but the Diamondbacks have objected.