31.   NBC has conducted long negotiations in recent months with two such companies, Time Warner and Turner Broadcasting System.

32.   Negotiations were conducted in considerable secrecy.

33.   President Clinton did not seem to be conducting budget negotiations Wednesday as he traipsed through Pennsylvania raising campaign money for House Democrats.

34.   Quiet, but earnest and direct, Reid in fact conducted the negotiations behind the negotiations.

35.   Separate talks to secure a cease-fire are also under way, with the armed parties and NATO officials conducting those negotiations.

36.   Sharon has said that he will not conduct peace negotiations against a blood-soaked backdrop, which many here wholeheartedly endorse.

37.   Similar negotiations were later conducted with the other Latin American debtors.

38.   Some analysts believe that Turner Broadcasting came out of the meeting with a plan to pursue CBS, but wants to conduct negotiations in private.

39.   Still, lawmakers and observers insisted the parliamentary talks could lay a key foundation for the mutual trust needed to conduct sensitive negotiations.

40.   Steve Tatum, spokesman for Gov. Wilson, said the Senate, Assembly and governor now are conducting budget negotiations.