31.   Merger talks between French telecommunications giant Alcatel SA and Lucent Technologies Inc. are called off after intense negotiations failed to yield an agreement.

32.   More negotiations failed.

33.   Negotiations also failed to land it civic-use space alongside other cultural service groups within a downtown development project.

34.   Negotiations failed, however, because they insisted on taking the place of the father, rather than being treated as concerned, yet distant, relatives.

35.   Negotiations having failed, the players now hold their own fate in their hands.

36.   New York Attorney General Dennis G. Vacco said that if negotiations had failed, he had planned to sue AOL for deceptive business practices.

37.   One of my research projects looked at why negotiations so often fail.

38.   Raytheon reportedly had talked with McDonnell Douglas about a merger as recently as July, but those negotiations failed.

39.   Put that way, it is no wonder that the negotiations failed.

40.   Some senior officials of the Muslim-led Bosnian government said that the negotiations had failed and that the Serbs were to blame.