21.   It would also extract concessions from the unions to reduce overtime, extra pay for working nights and the number of sick days for new employees.

22.   Japan, Indonesia and other nations had hoped to add the anti-dumping clause to stymie U.S. efforts to extract concessions in trade talks by imposing retaliatory sanctions.

23.   Meanwhile, many of the allies were wavering, sending emissaries to Baghdad in a vain attempt to extract concessions that would redound to their own political advantage.

24.   Now comes Barbara Boxer, a liberal Californian, who last week used the ploy to try to extract a concession from a powerful Mississippi conservative.

25.   Progress in doing that has been limited, though, and Blanc is now getting tougher about extracting concessions.

26.   Republicans extracted heavy concessions because they knew that Cooper was unwilling to jump ship to join forces with Gephardt.

27.   Similarly, the FCC extracted concessions designed to bolster competition in the instant messaging business.

28.   Sharon dismissed the Palestinian reaction as blind hatred, and argued that the violence was intended to extract more concessions from Israel at the negotiating table.

29.   Some Israeli officials, in turn, think that the Palestinians are engaging in dangerous brinkmanship in an effort to extract concessions.

30.   Some believe that his most recent resignation is just another gambit to extract more concessions from CNN management.