81.   Pataki joined the two men at a negotiating session this morning and said he shared their concern.

82.   Rep. David R. Obey, D-Wis., and the ranking minority member on the Appropriations Committee, had expected a negotiating session rather than an ultimatum.

83.   So far, however, the intense negotiating sessions have failed to yield any substantial progress, officials from both sides said.

84.   Some of the assistants not under contract are scheduled to meet for negotiating sessions with Jones early next week.

85.   So rather than veto the bill, he convened a rare negotiating session with Pingree and her colleagues.

86.   Still, Pataki and legislative leaders did not conduct a single negotiating session this year that was devoted solely to the city schools.

87.   Such negative thinking is a sure-fire way to sabotage a negotiating session, the experts say, or to discourage talks from happening in the first place.

88.   That meeting, according to Microsoft executives, was not a negotiating session.

89.   The agreement was reached after a two-days of extended negotiating sessions between the Carter delegation and the Haitian leaders.

90.   That meeting will mark their fourth negotiating session in five days.