21.  But those discussions ended in recriminations over which company initiated the talks and which had the stronger bargaining position.

22.  But those hopes were dashed today as opponents also forced through a motion binding Trimble to a fixed bargaining position on the highly charged issue of policing.

23.  By reducing the NEA subsidy to zero, House opponents of the agency have enhanced their bargaining position with the Senate.

24.  Conventional wisdom is that the guerrillas are seeking to improve their bargaining position when the talks finally get under way.

25.  Dealing Pettitte now places the Yankees in a less desperate bargaining position.

26.  Dr. Willem Baan, chairman of an international committee monitoring interference in radio astronomy, deplored the weak bargaining position of radio astronomers.

27.  Each year, the Assembly seeks billions more than the governor, but it is a bargaining position, later abandoned.

28.  GM executives have maintained a policy of not commenting on how their low inventories might affect their bargaining position this autumn.

29.  Having so far been spared the large client defections that have hit the American partnership, affiliates in Europe and Canada are in a stronger bargaining position.

30.  He said neither side moved its bargaining position.