Mr. Cheney said he hoped the current talks, called Conventional Forces in Europe, or C.F.E., could be completed next year.

The P.L.O. refused to join talks called by President Sadat.

The county decided to go to court after talks called by Mr. Gulotta failed to resolve the dispute.

"Hot talk", also called "FM talk" or "shock talk", is a talk radio format geared predominantly to a male demographic between the ages of 18-49.

Negotiators are scheduled to meet on Tuesday in Sacramento for a new round of talks called by Gov. Gray Davis.

Happy talk, also called banter, is the additional and often meaningless commentary interspersed into news programs by news anchors and others on set.

John Alderdice, leader of the Alliance Party, a small liberal nonsectarian party that was taking part in the talks, called today's breakdown "unnecessary and untimely."

In a talk called Who is it who knows there is no Ego?

Its discussions informed the next round of talks called by the British and Irish Governments, held at St Andrews in October 2006.

He is giving the inaugural speech in a series of six talks, organised by Jericho House theatre group, called What's the Point of Art Now?