The talks got off to a fitful start three months ago but collapsed this month.

After a fitful start in the 1960's, the road was abandoned for environmental and budgetary reasons.

It had taken them nearly five months of tedious travel with fitful starts and stops at various backwater planets just to get here.

After a fitful start, the on-line travel marketplace is finding firm footing as people become adept at using the Internet and as personal computers achieve greater household penetration.

While Novartis alienated some patients with the fitful start of Gipap, another, larger group became vocal advocates for the company's interests after receiving Glivec free.

There was frustration for Victor Zambrano (1-3) after another fitful start and loss.

Japan's economy, after more than a decade of fitful starts, is once again growing smartly.

In the forest itself, modern subdivision had a fitful start in the 1920s when Dreamland and Brentwood Country Clubs were organized.

Mr. Penn talked at Dock's Oyster Bar in midtown, in fitful starts and stops.

After a fitful start in 1997, fresh issues of these securities averaged $16.6 billion a month in the first half of 1998.