11.   According to Friend, flight attendants nationwide are prepared to stop work for a day if negotiations for tougher security measures fail.

12.   After peace negotiations failed and the uprising began, former Sen. George Mitchell brokered the Mitchell Plan to walk the parties back to the negotiating table.

13.   After negotiations failed, he accused Yale of homophobia.

14.   But Braswell is a firm candidate, especially if negotiations fail with McKay and, possibly, Milwaukee Bucks assistant Don Newman.

15.   But early Tuesday, a Hesse government representative, Dirk Metz, told journalists that the negotiations had failed.

16.   But he cautioned that no precooked deal exists and the negotiations could still fail unless the parties agree to compromise on remaining territorial and constitutional disputes.

17.   But Lott did not want unrelated amendments attached to the bill, which is a common practice in Congress, and negotiations with Daschle failed to resolve differences.

18.   But most of the major media firms, including Vivendi Universal and Viacom, agree that government intervention may be necessary if private negotiations fail.

19.   Deborah Sontag of The New York Times did a masterly article on why the negotiations failed, talking with people on all sides.

20.   Democrats said the strategy was nothing more than an effort by Republicans to give themselves political cover should the negotiations fail.