31.   After Stern and Granik made their announcement Monday, Hunter said he hopes for a negotiating session in mid-July.

32.   Airline officials said negotiating sessions could continue around the clock until the strike deadline set by the pilots union for just after midnight Friday.

33.   Airline President Donald Carty, heading into a negotiating session Thursday night, said the company still was reviewing the proposal.

34.   But if observers are right, Jordan certainly owes nothing to the owners and league leaders who have refused to be awestruck by his presence at negotiating sessions.

35.   But in the last negotiating session between the league and the union two weeks ago, the players association refused to go forward unless the Bird exception remains.

36.   But officials on both sides said in advance that the meeting was not intended as a negotiating session.

37.   But Overnite officials insisted that they were bargaining in good faith and blamed the union for often postponing negotiating sessions.

38.   But they came perilously close to being on the ground as the invasion began, because of the marathon negotiating session.

39.   Cardinale agreed to delay releasing the bill from committee and said two of his staff members would attend the negotiating session.

40.   Clinton, Dole and Speaker Newt Gingrich spent three hours Sunday in talks at the White House, the shortest negotiating session of the three days.