The tentative deal clearly involves concessions by both sides.

A long-term solution would necessarily involve concessions on all sides.

Executives involved in the talks are increasingly coming to realize that pushing ahead with a deal will involve major concessions.

He did so just long enough to join a unanimous Senate Labor Committee vote for a cost-control plan that involved major concessions by both sides.

The more difficult part - the $160 million mayoral aides said would involve concessions on benefits or work rules and directly affect workers - remained unspecified.

"But in fact it is subject to a kind of moral economy, which involves trade-offs, concessions and prosecutorial discretion."

That primary mission, though, stood in service of his principal ambition: peace, which will involve difficult territorial concessions and require a public consensus.

Pan Am reached agreement with its engineers on a three-year contract that involves sizable concessions by the union.

The deal involved several key concessions by the governor to Senate Republicans.

The compromise "doesn't involve concessions," he said, but "efforts to strengthen the authority of the state, which has considerably weakened."