1.   Chief Executive Paul Shipman, who said the changeover disrupted deliveries and stalled promotional efforts, compared the transition to a messy divorce.

2.   Gingrich called for resumption of a stalled effort to reach an agreement with the White House on a plan to balance the federal budget within seven years.

3.   Revenge killings of Albanians could destroy not only the tenuous cease-fire in this southern Serbian province, but also the nearly stalled U.S. efforts to negotiate peace.

4.   Secretary of State Colin Powell launched a timely new initiative Monday to revive stalled Middle East peace efforts.

5.   The two fires appear to have given new political impetus to stalled efforts to require sprinkler systems in tall residential apartment buildings.

6.   The stalled effort to build the International Space Station lurched ahead with the launching of the Russian Zvezda service module.

7.   Others hoped to revive the stalled efforts for internal reform of the Union, kicked off at a special summit in March.

8.   A resumption of dialogue would also provide an opportunity for Tokyo and Pyongyang to sound each other out about stalled efforts to establish diplomatic ties.

9.   Chaudhry Sultan Mahmood, prime minister of Azad Kashmir, said Pakistan is becoming fed up with stalled efforts to bring peace to the disputed province.

10.   Greek officials will begin a three-day visit to Cyprus Thursday for talks on stalled efforts to reunify the war-divided island.