11.   Auto executives declined to discuss specific negotiating positions on how to control costs.

12.   A senior administration official suggested their reluctance may be a negotiating position.

13.   But actors are certainly now in a better negotiating position, said SAG spokesman Greg Krizman.

14.   But having some good legal advice certainly would strengthen your negotiating position.

15.   But just as the two governments cannot allow the bombers a veto, neither can the parties let their hard-line constituents set their negotiating positions.

16.   But Kraft has more than a strong negotiating position.

17.   But Pentagon officials are pressing the White House to revise its negotiating position to permit more powerful explosions.

18.   But Ziglar is hardly in a good negotiating position.

19.   Democrats said they felt they were in a strong negotiating position, because the House bill, unlike the Senate bill, had bipartisan support.

20.   Douglas is in a peculiar negotiating position because Lewis and Burrell are members of his club and he negotiates appearance fees for all of his runners.