21.   Following marathon negotiations at a mansion in the English countryside, the British and Irish governments are putting together a plan they hope will salvage the accord.

22.   General practitioners were closing their offices Tuesday ahead of marathon negotiations in a seven-month-long dispute over higher pay.

23.   He would not provide details of the agreement reached during marathon negotiations this weekend before the National Mediation Board.

24.   In the West Bank and Gaza Strip, new violence flared even as marathon summit negotiations in this Red Sea resort reached a finale.

25.   In the West Bank and Gaza Strip, new violence flared even as marathon negotiations in this Red Sea resort reached a finale.

26.   Israeli and PLO teams resumed marathon negotiations Sunday at a new, isolated site on the Dead Sea shores.

27.   Israel, which suspended peace talks with the Palestinians after two Israelis were killed in the West Bank, has decided to resume the marathon negotiations on Thursday afternoon.

28.   Negotiations over the smallest details often lead even now to marathon negotiations and chest-to-chest confrontations between familiar allies.

29.   Nabil Shaat, a top aide to Arafat, said the pullback was one area of agreement in marathon negotiations between the two sides.

30.   On Friday, EU agriculture ministers suspended marathon negotiations to reform the costly subsidy program until next week in the hope of narrowing differences.