Both sides said yesterday that the chief problem in the final hours of negotiations involved these rules.

After five hours of negotiations they emerged to announce their new agreement.

The proposal came after more than six hours of negotiations here yesterday.

The Saturday announcement, he added, followed about 24 hours of negotiations.

He drove a company van to a nature preserve and gave himself up after several hours of negotiations.

After long hours of negotiations Phuntsog's mother finally took him to the hospital.

After more than seven hours of negotiations, one insider said last night, "we're still talking."

The deal came after 10 1/2 hours of intense negotiations on Wednesday.

But he surrendered quietly after about a half hour of negotiations.

Since then, two months and 300 hours of negotiations have gone by.