1.   He has already started negotiations, and hopes to announce alliances next month.

2.   They all had a bounden responsibility to start negotiations to end the nightmare.

3.   Central government started negotiations with the republics on a new Union Treaty.

4.   The freed Irish hostage, Brian Keenan has called on Britain and America to start negotiations to try to get other western hostages out of Lebanon.

5.   As a result, legislative leaders from both parties, who have been hesitant to start budget negotiations until the federal budget impasse is broken, reacted skeptically.

6.   Assad told Albright on Tuesday that he was prepared to respond favorably to the letter and start negotiations where they left off.

7.   Barak announced during his election campaign that, if he was elected, he would start negotiations to withdraw the Israeli soldiers from Lebanon within the next year.

8.   Beginning as early as next week, the Yankees will start negotiations with city and state officials in New York to study other options.

9.   A German-Russian commission has recently started negotiations, but the decades of tensions have not yet settled.

10.   But these nations have not started serious negotiations with the manufacturers, and are first likely to lease such planes as a cost-saving measure.