71.   Rockets officials, citing club policy, refused to comment about the trade negotiations.

72.   So much so that intellectual property rights violations are being debated in World Trade Organization trade negotiations.

73.   Some markets, to be sure, are more open now as a result of these trade negotiations.

74.   Sperling said the United States wanted a strong statement from APEC in support of a new global trade negotiation that will begin in November in Seattle.

75.   Steel and fast-track trade negotiations are the two targets of protectionists lobbying.

76.   Still, economists stress that such trade negotiations between the two countries are among the few options open to the U.S. as it works to narrow the trade gap.

77.   Such a procedure makes trade negotiations easier.

78.   Such statements, by either side, are commonplace in the last week or so of any trade negotiation.

79.   That has convinced many labor leaders that he will take a more pro-labor stance in trade negotiations than President Clinton has.

80.   The agriculture talks that are to convene in May are unfinished business from the previous round of trade negotiations, known as the Uruguay round.