Mr. Cuomo spent the day shuttling between Albany, where he held inconclusive budget negotiations with legislative leaders, and New York City, where he gave a speech on immigration policy to an organization of foreign consuls at the United Nations.

For much of her time in Baghdad, Ms. O'Sullivan spent days and nights shuttling between Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds to help forge the deal on the interim government of June 2004.

I spent the next two days shuttling between my bed at home and the hospital, where I tried to establish breastfeeding with my son.

Secretary of State Warren Christopher, who spent seven days shuttling between the parties, made the announcement in Israel standing next to Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who is in the midst of a fierce election campaign.

Mr. Maxwell and his retinue spent the day shuttling between sparsely furnished offices that he had turned over to each of the union leaders.

The parties spent the day shuttling between the judge's chambers and the meeting room.

Senior leaders spent the day shuttling between a series of large meetings and smaller ones - some on spending, others on tax cuts and still others involving just Republicans and Democrats huddling among themselves to discuss the most recent offers or counteroffers.

The chairman of the OAU, the Algerian president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, has spent the last two days shuttling between both capitals to try and find a diplomatic solution to the war.

Let Mr. Kahn take off from a New York airport for Spokane, Wash., and spend the rest of the day shuttling back and forth between Detroit, St. Paul and Chicago eating airport food.

Grim-faced lawmakers spent the day shuttling from meeting to meeting in search of a way out of the fix.