1.   A sounder way to encourage settlement is to permit the interested parties to enter into knowing and voluntary negotiations without any arbitrary limits on their bargaining chips.

2.   Fehr said it was positive that the owners were willing to continue negotiations without a salary cap in place.

3.   Finally, the Los Angeles Lakers entered negotiations without being restrained by the salary cap.

4.   He even orchestrated the negotiations without advice from his decision-making baseball executives.

5.   In a letter sent to car haulers last week, Hoffa promised he would not return from the negotiations without a significant increase in pensions.

6.   It is to begin real peace negotiations without conditions, giving Palestinians a stake in the future.

7.   Prisoners broke off negotiations without any reason Monday afternoon, saying they would resume talks Tuesday morning.

8.   Peres, the architect of previous interim agreements with the Palestinians, said both sides should return to negotiations without conditions.

9.   After two days of negotiations without reaching an agreement, the two sides asked United States, Brazil, Argentina and Chile to intervene.

10.   But the atmosphere appears so much improved that Blair may be able to make tough stands in EU negotiations without being isolated.