51.   The chief negotiator for the musicians, Phil Sipser, flew home to New York Saturday after eight hours of sluggish negotiations at City Hall ended in deadlock.

52.   The Chrysler and GM contracts now are open-ended, allowing negotiations at the two companies to continue without the threat of a walkout unless a new deadline is established.

53.   The future of Jerusalem was the sticking point that caused negotiations at Camp David to collapse last summer.

54.   The negotiations at Emam Sahib followed a humiliating retreat by the Northern Alliance on Tuesday.

55.   The negotiations at Taba were interrupted by Barak after two Israelis were killed in the West Bank.

56.   The peace negotiations at the Wye Plantation in Maryland in October took place against the backdrop of domestic politics as well.

57.   The players and methods used in business negotiations at Disney are rarely revealed.

58.   The plan includes many of the types of financial rejiggering that is typical of Albany budget negotiations at this time of year.

59.   The warning came as key differences between nations continued to stymie negotiations at the conference being held in the historic Japanese city of Kyoto.

60.   The two sides resumed negotiations at about noon Sunday at MTA headquarters, a block from Grand Central Terminal.