31.  He said that landlords who were late coming to the telecommunications market are in a particularly poor bargaining position.

32.  He told skeptics that the bill was only an opening step, a bargaining position in the negotiations yet to come with President Clinton.

33.  He rightly complains that Arafat in recent weeks has encouraged potentially violent protests in an effort to enhance his diplomatic bargaining position.

34.  Holger Schmieding, an economist at Merrill Lynch Bank AG, termed the plan a bargaining position and forecast Waigel will back down.

35.  If, on the other hand, the pilots are sure that lawmakers will keep hands off, they will harden their bargaining position.

36.  In conversations Monday, neither Boeing nor its engineers appeared willing to back away from sticking points in their bargaining positions.

37.  In maneuvering for the best bargaining position in their internal strife, baseball owners and players have seriously damaged their sport.

38.  Initial bargaining positions are typically framed in their most extreme terms, to create space for concessions.

39.  Indeed, California was in a terrible bargaining position during its negotiations with power generators.

40.  It also enhances their bargaining positions for the next round of broadcast negotiations, a singularly important piece of the revenue pie for sports franchises.