21.   He will go down as a man whose passion for politics transcended party lines and affiliations, a leader who viewed compromise and negotiation as a lost art form.

22.   In India, even labor unions that regularly battle employers for higher wages and improved benefits mostly opposed using trade negotiations as leverage for a better deal.

23.   In the end, one specialist in Bogota summed up hostage negotiations as a straightforward business deal.

24.   Indeed, the bombing was expected to accelerate negotiations as Israeli and Palestinian leaders seek to demonstrate progress and purge public doubts about the process.

25.   It was described on Wednesday night by diplomats familiar with the negotiations as a working tool that was not intended to be definitive.

26.   It was described on Thursday night by diplomats familiar with the negotiations as a working tool that was not intended to be definitive.

27.   Moderates like Porfirio Munoz Ledo, the party president, and Sen. Herberto Castillo see negotiation as necessary.

28.   More recently, New York saw the lease negotiations as an opportunity to wrest financial control of the Port Authority from New Jersey.

29.   Military officials here described the negotiations as successful without specifying how many Taliban soldiers had given themselves up.

30.   Museums describe these negotiations as delicate.