41.   Negotiations have been rocky but both sides hope an agreement can be reached before the end of the year.

42.   One of the priorities of the conference, he added, is to teach members ways of helping mentors reach children before these problems push them to the edge.

43.   Shell said no one from ESPN tried to reach him before the report aired.

44.   Senators spent Wednesday staking out public positions and negotiating privately to see if accommodations could be reached before the floor debate.

45.   Sharon has said that if he became prime minister he would not honor any agreement reached before the election.

46.   Such agreements have been reached before only to collapse.

47.   Texas Rangers center fielder Chad Curtis found it eventually, but not before Wooten reached third standing up.

48.   Such talks might enable the governors to break their logjam and reach agreement before a scheduled Tuesday vote on the reform proposal, he said.

49.   That decision ought to be reached before the October recess.