1.   Amid huge controversy, the government is locked in delicate negotiations with local authorities about which areas should be surrendered to the flood.

2.   And the agency faces delicate negotiations over tobacco.

3.   Back in Washington state, friends and family were avoiding any statements that could interfere with the delicate negotiations.

4.   Bertelsmann is in delicate negotiations about combining its music operations with EMI Group.

5.   A Beacon Hill legislative leader also called on Weld to keep politics out of the delicate negotiations over the Central Artery funding.

6.   A delicate negotiation ensued.

7.   But any change in Social Security would require delicate negotiations, and the Senate would need to waive rules intended to protect the program.

8.   But both sides are still wary that the delicate negotiations could collapse under an array of political pressures, officials said Sunday.

9.   But it took months of delicate negotiations before the Romanian Orthodox Church would accede to a papal visit.

10.   But they hinge on delicate negotiations with its senior lenders, a group of about two dozen banks including Citigroup and J.P. Morgan Chase.