1.   Deputy City Manager Bruce Herring said the city is negotiating to acquire land for those two sites.

2.   Allen is also negotiating to acquire the assets of two other smaller cable companies.

3.   Chase Manhattan Corp. is negotiating to acquire the British asset management and investment banking firm Robert Fleming Holdings, the companies said Thursday.

4.   Chase in Talks for Robert Fleming Chase Manhattan is negotiating to acquire the asset management and investment banking firm Robert Fleming Holdings.

5.   For several months last year, Coke was negotiating to acquire a piece of South Beach Beverage Co., maker of SoBe herbal juices and teas.

6.   In August, the company negotiated to acquire Resounding Technologies, whose software lets people talk directly from PC to PC, rather than through a server.

7.   Industry sources said that Foster City Development Corp. is negotiating to acquire Royal Cruise outright, or one or more of its four ships.

8.   KPMG is continuing to negotiate to acquire offices in Europe and was said to be particularly far along in its talks with German auditors.

9.   Norstan Inc., Plymouth, Minn., a communications systems company, said it was negotiating to acquire an information-technology company on the West Coast.

10.   The company is negotiating to acquire a site in Rockefeller Center.