Unicredito made an abortive run at Commerzbank, which in turn held inconclusive talks with Dresdner.

Although Thursday's discussions proved inconclusive, further talks are likely, businessmen said.

After a year of inconclusive talks, the sides submitted the dispute to the ICJ in September 1990.

"We had congenial, but inconclusive talks," Jackson said after meeting with Selig and a handful of other owners.

Now, independent aid agencies say, the situation is different, though Israel has allowed shipments of medical supplies and there have been some inconclusive talks with aid groups.

There had been inconclusive talk of establishing middle schools, or a peculiar 11-13 school with a chain of upper schools thereafter, but nothing was settled.

Nothing but this feverish, inconclusive talk that unbearably passed the unbearable time.

After inconclusive talks, 25 to 35 teenaged drivers struck on August 14, 1897.

The last, inconclusive talks on Kashmir followed in 1972.

The Government and the rebels have held three rounds of inconclusive talks.