51.   Negotiators were working on proposals that North Korea suspend its missile program and allow other countries to launch its satellites into space.

52.   Negotiators work past the wire to resolve deadlock.

53.   Negotiators worked long hours this week to try to reach agreement before the Commerce Department took action, but talks broke down late Thursday.

54.   Negotiators worked for a year in Lusaka, Zambia, to produce a new treaty signed last November.

55.   Negotiators worked Thursday to overcome Bosnian Serb objections and meet a midnight deadline for agreement on reducing tanks, big guns and combat aircraft across former Yugoslavia.

56.   NATO negotiators were working to ease the potentially explosive standoff.

57.   Negotiators are working against a U.S.-imposed deadline of next Wednesday to resolve the dispute.

58.   Negotiators have been working round the clock since returning to the bargaining table Tuesday.

59.   Negotiators were working on the final agreement on the margin of a two-day EU summit.

60.   Negotiators worked late Wednesday on the final terms of the document and are expected to complete it late Thursday or Friday, officials said.