21.   After their analysis was finished, the two companies hammered out the final details of the acquisition, meeting well past midnight on Sunday.

22.   Albrecht and Manpower chairman Mitchell Fromstein said the agreement would become effective once final details were worked out.

23.   All this makes for deft politics, but, depending on final details, dubious economics.

24.   Brazilian Communications Minister Sergio Motta has been meeting with Telebras President Fernando Xavier Ferreira in the past few days to decide the final details of the sale.

25.   But first they have to take care of the final details over here.

26.   But it took some legal wrangling in recent days here for the final details to be worked out.

27.   But late Thursday night, negotiations were still going on over the final details.

28.   But much of the intense negotiating occurred over the past few days as executives at the two companies worked out the final details of a combination.

29.   But much of the intense negotiating occurred over the last few days as executives at the two companies worked out the final details of a combination.

30.   But union officials said a few final details were still being worked out.