61.   Brittan ruled out reaching an accord without the U.S., as the EU did last summer after the U.S. pulled out of World Trade Organization negotiations on financial services.

62.   Both sides expected a resolution to the weekend-long negotiations on Monday.

63.   Bruno said he expected to resume negotiations on the bill later this year.

64.   But after hours of closed-door negotiations on other sections of the document, the Vatican and other delegates reported that many differences remained.

65.   But administration officials said on Monday that it would be futile to try to force negotiations on the federal budget.

66.   But as negotiations on the visit were under way, the homes were demolished.

67.   But he added that Softbank had not entered into specific negotiations on price or conditions with Ziff and had not yet decided whether to make a formal bid.

68.   But he cautioned that negotiations on direct links in trade and transportation could not be divorced from the larger political issues.

69.   But he said that the document had not been translated yet and he noted that eight previous negotiations on the subject had been fruitless.

70.   But it has become the sticking point in state-federal negotiations on legal waivers required before Massachusetts can implement its reforms, which would otherwise violate federal regulations.