Officials from both countries said they also hoped more broadly for an improvement in the prickly, mistrustful relations between the United States and India.

He and Mrs. Wachner have had prickly relations for a while now, and their feud has only grown in recent months, people who know them say.

But Bolivia's most prickly relations will be with Chile, even with the election last week of the Socialist Michelle Bachelet as president.

Instead of presenting a unified front, each Federal agency deals separately with Japan's shrewd negotiators, a sure recipe for a bad deal and prickly relations.

The meetings are part of Microsoft's effort to improve its sometimes prickly relations with Silicon Valley.

Clinton-Gore had prickly relations with Netanyahu.

After all, the president was in the final year of a second term tainted by scandal, coming to a country that has had notoriously prickly relations with the United States.

Stern had dealt with Mel for years when Tooley was a prosecutor, a prickly relation marked by many bitter struggles.

From what Picard knew of Arit's prickly relations with Egin, he had little doubt that was her exact intention.

The President has also made an effort to patch up his prickly relations with the press.