31.   Often Israeli and Palestinian negotiators use the village as a neutral ground to hold difficult negotiations.

32.   Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel headed home from Paris on Thursday morning, declining an invitation from President Hosni Mubarak to hold further negotiations in Egypt.

33.   Rich held negotiations with other buyers last year that came to nothing, these people said.

34.   Tanenbaum was also asked if he had held any negotiations with the chief prosecutor, Peter Letang, an assistant attorney general.

35.   Tele-Communications held extensive negotiations last year with both companies about combining Prime Star with a direct-broadcast satellite service they were starting.

36.   That rebel group has been holding peace negotiations with government officials more than two years, and has hinted that it wants to become a legal, political force.

37.   The bank is not holding any negotiations with a U.S. financial institution, he said.

38.   The Canadian union also tends to hold short strikes every three years before reaching contracts, often against the first company with which negotiations are held.

39.   The city and Valley VOTE expect to hold public negotiations in the next few weeks.

40.   The decision by the mainly Indian guerrillas of the Zapatista National Liberation Army was announced in the rustic square of a Chiapas village where the negotiations were held.