81.   Intense negotiations usually occur during cooling-off periods.

82.   Intense negotiations, often between pairs of countries, continued into the final week.

83.   Its peacekeeping mandate in Croatia ends tonight at midnight, and intense negotiations are under way over prolonging it.

84.   Many Russian political analysts also said the compromise, which followed weeks of intense negotiations, would fail to calm the public.

85.   Merger talks between Alcatel and Lucent broke down Tuesday after days of intense negotiations.

86.   Merger talks between Alcatel and Lucent broke down late Tuesday, after a long weekend of intense negotiations.

87.   Russia responded angrily Thursday to the war crimes indictment of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, which followed a second day of intense negotiations aimed at ending the Kosovo crisis.

88.   Summers said intense negotiations are expected before Zhu, the official in charge of economic reform, visits the United States in April.

89.   The announcement of peace talks followed intense U.S. negotiations in the Balkans led by Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke.

90.   Syria and the Palestinians have been at a tense distance for years, and the scheduled two-day trip was arranged only after intense negotiations.