1.   Clinton said yesterday negotiations would resume no later than next Wednesday.

2.   Clinton said yesterday negotiations would resume no later than Wednesday.

3.   The delegations again failed to agree on when or where the negotiations should resume.

4.   Although the mayor and Peter Vallone, the council speaker, spoke several times Thursday, serious negotiations did not resume.

5.   And although the Israelis predicted late last week that the negotiations would resume as scheduled on Sunday, the Palestinians did not show up.

6.   Both sides agreed Wednesday to meet with a federal mediator on Saturday, though it was not certain that negotiations would resume.

7.   Both sides appeared to be no closer to bringing more than two years of talks to a close than they were when negotiations resumed in Washington on Monday.

8.   Both union and management said they would be happy to confer with administration officials, but neither indicated that formal negotiations would resume soon.

9.   A Russian delegation is in Tokyo to complete negotiations on resuming shipments of the metals after a five-month halt, Japanese trading companies said.