1.   In part, the lack of debate may have been the natural consequence of the president frequently invoking the use of force during the tedious negotiations.

2.   It requires a personality capable of enduring endless delays while engaging in tedious negotiations that may produce nothing at all.

3.   Between tedious negotiations on forming a new Cabinet, President Vaclav Havel found time Thursday to meet with American pop singer Lou Reed.

4.   But the final agreement urges such relief only in some cases, typifying the kind of compromise worked out word-by-word during often tedious negotiations.