1.   Diplomatic negotiations often aim at a zero-sum game.

2.   ...these long and tortuous negotiations aimed at ending the conflict.

3.   And he said an end to the alliance would likely scuttle U.S. and U.K. government negotiations aimed at a more open aviation regime between the two countries.

4.   But negotiations aimed at accomplishing the merger turned bitter and then broke down.

5.   Following that action, Healthdyne would continue negotiations aimed at a sale, said founder and Chairman Parker H. Petit.

6.   General Motors Corp. and the United Auto Workers today continued contract negotiations aimed at avoiding a strike tomorrow morning at a Fort Wayne, Indiana, pickup truck plant.

7.   In Colombia, negotiations aimed at averting an oil workers strike continued between state oil company Ecopetrol an unions, the company said.

8.   Negotiations aim at getting its political parties and armed factions to agree on ethnic coexistence and power-sharing.

9.   Negotiations aimed at combining their efforts collapsed this month amid bitter disagreements over how their genetic data would be released.

10.   Then, the presidential party flew to Arusha, Tanzania, for peace negotiations aimed at ending a civil war in the central African nation of Burundi.