31.   Outside the first-base entrance, federal prosecutor Mike Snipes of Dallas worked his courtroom negotiating skills to get into The Ballpark.

32.   Parents save money while the children obtain new toys and learn some negotiating skills.

33.   She found she had to use her considerable negotiating skills to carve out more space for her personal life.

34.   That Dole has fashioned a bill is as much a testament to his negotiating skills as it is to the importance Republicans have attached to passing welfare reform.

35.   The outcome of the summit was seen as a tribute to the negotiating skills of Prime Minister Hashimoto, who previously served as minister of international trade and industry.

36.   While consumers rarely bargain over the price of jeans, negotiating skills are essential in weightier situations like buying a car, selling a house or seeking a raise.

37.   An old-style politician accustomed to cutting deals, Alarcon brings finely honed negotiating skills to the job.

38.   But the one-time KGB agent remains something of a mystery to U.S. policy-makers, at least in terms of his negotiating skills.

39.   Even before the confessional call to investors, Parsons was already putting his negotiating skills to work.

40.   Given time, the formidable negotiating skills of the experienced peacekeepers will do that job if it can be done.