41.   The new system allows U.S. clubs to bid for exclusive negotiating rights to any player made available by a Japanese club.

42.   The Padres say they acquired exclusive negotiating rights to Irabu when they struck a working agreement with his club, the Chiba Lotte Marines of the Japanese Pacific League.

43.   The signing is the result of a tender for the Uzen oil field, for which the Chinese National Petroleum Corporation secured exclusive negotiating rights in August.

44.   The posting system allows Japanese teams to sell the negotiating rights for their players to the highest bidder among interested major league teams.

45.   The tender commission then gave exclusive negotiating rights to ABB, which had been the runner-up to National Grid.

46.   The Yankees acquired negotiating rights to Irabu in a trade agreed to last Tuesday.

47.   In November, the European Court of Justice ruled that the commission had exclusive negotiating rights for the EU where external agreements had an impact on internal law.

48.   Ling has said Kuala Lumpur would take a flexible approach to negotiating bilateral landing rights.