31.   The negotiators were working on a written statement that would somehow pledge to take action if that happens.

32.   The measure the negotiators are working on is called a budget resolution.

33.   To get the agreement Monday night, negotiators worked through at least six key issues in final bargaining.

34.   As the planes took off, U.N. negotiators worked on an evacuation plan for people in the embattled eastern Bosnian enclave of Zepa.

35.   But a U.S. source close to the negotiations said only that the Japanese side had made some good proposals and negotiators were working hard to reach a settlement.

36.   But he said the PLO negotiators still were working to remove the obstacles.

37.   He said Chinese negotiators would work toward concluding a comprehensive test-ban treaty on nuclear explosions this year.

38.   House and Senate negotiators were working on the bill Thursday.

39.   Inside, government negotiators worked to persuade him to give himself up and avoid a bloody confrontation.

40.   Israeli and Palestinian negotiators worked Tuesday to resolve the minute differences preventing the first meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu and Yasser Arafat, an Israeli official said.