11.   Agreeing on these terms is essential before the negotiators start dealing with new technologies, said John A. McGuinn, chief negotiator for the Joint Policy Committee.

12.   Bush later appointed Armitage to be the chief negotiator in talks on the future on U.S. bases in the Philippines.

13.   But by then, a new round of secret talks had begun, and Rice became the chief negotiator in the talks that led to the latest deal.

14.   But getting lawyers and the chief negotiators into a room for that meeting is another story.

15.   But he also requested that chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat not attend the meeting.

16.   But Saeb Erakat, the chief Palestinian negotiator with Israel, called on the United States and Britain to halt the attacks.

17.   But there is a danger of overreaching, suggested Shimon Peres, the Israeli Cabinet minister who was a chief negotiator of the landmark Oslo peace accord.

18.   By playing field commander and chief negotiator, he burnished his credentials as an eventual successor to union president Stephen Yokich.

19.   Canada Post said the chief negotiators of both sides were meeting Friday to draw up a negotiating schedule for next week.

20.   Clinton during the press briefing at the White House with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Middle East chief negotiator Dennis Ross and Press Secretary Joe Lockhart.