1.   On Friday, the Administration finalized negotiations for the sale of seven of eight shipping ports.

2.   Swatch is finalizing negotiations with the celebrity photographer, who would have a studio and exhibit space at its Centennial Olympic Park pavilion.

3.   The Israeli organization is also finalizing negotiations with a Central Florida space company for a joint venture in launching commercial rockets in the U.S.

4.   The team is at least two weeks away from finalizing its negotiations for a practice site, most likely to be the IceForum in Duluth.

5.   China and the United States will finalize negotiations later in December on bilateral textile agreements which expire at year-end, the U.S. Embassy in Beijing announced Friday.

6.   He said he expected negotiations to be finalized by the end of the year.

7.   However, analysts said negotiations were by no means finalized.

8.   Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres is to meet with Arafat at the end of August to finalize negotiations.

9.   Since the announcement, other long-distance carriers also finalized negotiations with the Cuban government to start service.

10.   The blast came as Palestinian and Israeli negotiators gathered in the Red Sea port of Eilat to finalize negotiations on an Israeli withdrawal from cities in the West Bank.