Although the agreements created the basis for further negotiation, they did little to reduce protection.
He understands that to reach a deal it would require some further negotiation.
Worse still, even the normally reliable Mr Dewar has gone off-message, suggesting in a speech on November 30th that the powers of the Scottish parliament, far from being settled, could be up for further negotiation.
If Mr Barak can bring home the draft peace agreement that eluded him and Yasser Arafat at Camp David, or even a less ambitious accord, providing Palestinian statehood but leaving the issues of Jerusalem and the refugees for further negotiation, the election would become, in effect, the referendum on peace that he promised.
But the accident will exacerbate existing problems for the oil giant, giving its unions new negotiation leverage and further soiling the company's poor safety record, which already included several oil spills.
American officials contend that if Mrs Albright can just get Mr Netanyahu to put something specific on the table, no matter how unacceptable it is at first to the Palestinians, a negotiation can begin and further concessions will follow.
To take the metaphor of negotiation or combat as a game even further, if possible one should not only change the game board, but change the game.
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So for example on climate change because you know there are negotiations going on in Bonn at the same time, I had a conversation with two of the leaders here, never mind who they were, which then allowed us to unblock some of the obstacles in the Bonn negotiation and I think we'll probably get further than we otherwise would.
"Further prevarication could risk all of the West of England major transport schemes under negotiation with the Government, " he said.
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There is not much further he could go, because after all, unlike his counterparts in this negotiation, he has already gone halfway on both sides of the equation.
Ralcorp, you might recall, rejected without negotiation unsolicited bids from ConAgra ( CAG) and adopted several measures to make further takeover attempts less likely.
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"There's an amount of negotiation to be done with the bank should January arrive and we have got no further forward with this relocation plan, " he said.
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