21.   One way to restart the negotiations would be for Netanyahu to stop dropping hints about a national-unity government and actually go ahead and form one.

22.   Palestinian officials were cautious, saying that representatives of both sides would meet in the next few days to see if there was enough common ground to restart negotiations.

23.   Representatives of Northwest and the Air Line Pilots Association met in Washington with Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater in an attempt to restart contract negotiations.

24.   Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. special envoy for Cyprus, is to arrive there on Friday to try to restart negotiations between the two sides.

25.   The Belgian court also urged Renault to restart negotiations with the unions to find a means of avoiding or reducing the job cuts.

26.   The Belgian court urged Renault to restart negotiations with the unions to find a means of avoiding or reducing the job cuts.

27.   The commission, the executive arm of the European Union, said it was up to the U.S. to take the next step to restart negotiations.

28.   The effort to restart negotiations follows years of stalemate, with all sides agreeing that an overhaul is necessary but without an agreement on what needs to be done.

29.   The mushrooming scandal has virtually stalled the current mission of U.S. envoy Dennis Ross, now in the region seeking to restart peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.

30.   The State Department opposes restarting the negotiations for the same reason it opposes sanctions.