21.   Clerides and Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash have been conducting intensive negotiations since January in a bid to reach a settlement.

22.   Greek Cyriot President Glafcos Clerides and Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash have been conducting intensive negotiations since January in a bid to reach a settlement.

23.   Her comments reflected a steadily deepening frustration with the slow progress of negotiations since launching a peace initiative immediately after her government was elected last August.

24.   It was the fifth round of negotiations since May.

25.   LTV and its workers have been in negotiations since April in an effort to reach a new contract that will keep the company afloat.

26.   Prime Minister Ehud Barak said there have been no real negotiations since Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat turned down American proposals at the failed Camp David summit in July.

27.   Tentative agreement on a new accord was reached Friday after almost nonstop negotiations since mid-January.

28.   Such a deal would mark the first concrete achievement in bumpy peace negotiations since the January accord on an Israeli troop pullback in the West Bank town of Hebron.

29.   The British government has been trying to persuade both sides to disarm in negotiations since December.

30.   The deal was under negotiation since last April.