11.   Anatoly Chubais, who is representing the Russians in talks with the IMF, said he expected the negotiations to take one or two months.

12.   Any negotiations would not take place until next week.

13.   At the same time, the Washington session will bring Clinton back into the spotlight just as the Middle East peace negotiations are taking a promising turn.

14.   A top executive says negotiations are taking place with several chains.

15.   Airline contract negotiations take place under the Railway Labor Act.

16.   But AMA officials have said that they will press to have that provision revived in the conference committee where the House-Senate negotiations would take place.

17.   But before actual negotiations took place, the Knicks had one more surprise for Houston.

18.   But negotiations have taken a nasty turn, and Strahan is extremely upset that a deal has not been made.

19.   But the reversal illustrates a reality of doing business in China, where negotiations often take place only after the summary passage of laws and regulations.

20.   But the officials said the United States stood by the current map, insisting the Serbs must accept it before any negotiations take place.