11.   After dashing hopes for a budget accord earlier, the president now is planning to jump start the negotiating process.

12.   After a touch-and-go negotiating process before training camp two weeks ago, the Knicks came up with a contract to make up for his sacrifice.

13.   After the recent bombings, he has publicly urged the government to slow down the negotiating process.

14.   Brown was not directly involved in the negotiating process, but communicated with both employeres and the union during the talks.

15.   By late Friday afternoon, there was little left in the negotiating process.

16.   Credit-linked notes are typically the product of a negotiating process involving the sponsors of the trust and the potential investors.

17.   Decommissioning is essential to a peace settlement, but making it a precondition for all-party talks needlessly holds up the negotiating process.

18.   Everyone I talked to favored the continuation of the negotiating process.

19.   He did not define who would qualify as a poor tenant, saying he would leave that to the negotiating process.

20.   If the cease-fire can hold, the negotiating process is supposed to turn toward political issues, such as the settlement freeze.