31.   The president said the bill was a compromise reached after months of negotiations among the government, labor unions and businessmen.

32.   The president wants to advance negotiations among Israel, its neighbors and the Palestinians and burnish his legacy as a peacemaker.

33.   Those benefits were cut Tuesday during negotiations among various parties to the bankruptcy case.

34.   Today, one of his major battles is with postmodernist thinkers and philosophers of science who maintain that scientific theories reflect not objective reality but social negotiations among scientists.

35.   Two or three months of technical negotiations among member countries are then expected at the WTO headquarters in Geneva.

36.   U.S. officials said they hoped that ongoing U.S.-Mexico negotiations among lower ranking officials would sidetrack many of the disputes.

37.   We look at the status of negotiations among the White House, the Republicans and the Democrats.

38.   A planned attack by Georgian guerrillas on breakaway Abkhazia was thwarted after intense negotiations among top leaders of the rival governments, Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze said Monday.

39.   Alatas earlier rejected a suggestion by Mandela that an annual round of negotiations among pro and anti-Indonesian East Timorese factional leaders be held in South Africa.

40.   All this would be subject to negotiations among all parties, followed by a referendum.