41.   Despite a series of street protests, months of delicate negotiations have led to a plan for a U.S.-led anti-drug center on an American military base here.

42.   Following years of delicate negotiation, the Palestinians control most of the Gaza Strip and about a third of the West Bank.

43.   He burst onto the NBA scene with his first-round selection by the Houston Rockets, culminating months of delicate negotiations between the United States and China.

44.   Holbrooke, who will mediate the delicate negotiations, pledged to keep them secret until they conclude.

45.   It became a priority in the delicate negotiations between the United States and the Yugoslavian state that emerged after the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe.

46.   LUXEMBOURG -- Reports Canadian patrol boats are harassing Spanish trawlers overshadow delicate negotiations to end a monthlong fish war between Canada and the European Union.

47.   State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns would provide no substantive details of the delicate negotiations.

48.   The breakthrough ended days of delicate negotiations in which U.S. officials tried not to antagonize the North Koreans nor sound too conciliatory.

49.   The breakthrough ended days of delicate negotiations in which U.S. officials tried not to antagonize the North Koreans or sound too conciliatory.

50.   The Dutch government refuses to confirm the root of the dispute, saying doing so could endanger delicate negotiations to free the crew and vessels.