1.   Freedman said he was also negotiating to open kiosks in Bagel Boss stores on Long Island.

2.   He is negotiating to open a Dallas office for Judicial Watch, a conservative activist group.

3.   Last week, he said he was negotiating to open a Dallas office for Judicial Watch, a conservative group that monitors legal affairs.

4.   Among the news organizations negotiating to open bureaus in Cuba is The Associated Press, which was the last American news outlet in Cuba.

5.   The government and Communist rebels now are negotiating to open formal talks on ending one of the last active Marxist rebellions in the world.

6.   The fine print will determine whether the deal U.N. chief Kofi Annan negotiated to open Iraqi presidential palaces to U.N. arms inspectors succeeds in defusing the Iraqi crisis.

7.   Although Qatar and Israel do not have diplomatic relations, the Jewish state is negotiating to open a commercial office in Doha.

8.   The two are still negotiating to open liaison offices as the first step towards normalising ties.