His political foes have also complained that his representatives have conducted negotiations with Beijing out of public view and warn that the deals may erode Taiwan's de facto political independence from the mainland.
Mr. Bachelder, who has conducted negotiations between executives and companies like Bank One, Gillette, Nabisco, I.B.M. and TRW, said: "There's such a huge volume, it's a good thing there are many firms in the field.
Hamilton is close to signing a new contract with Mercedes, having conducted negotiations himself after leaving Simon Fuller's management company XIX last year.
Throughout this process, Time Warner Cable has conducted negotiations in a combative and non-productive spirit, indulging in pointless brinksmanship and distorted public positioning... CBS, for its part, is eager to make an agreement in line with the kind it has struck with every other cable, satellite and telco provider, and has continually sought reasonable term extensions to get that job done.
In interviews in recent weeks, roughly two dozen members, even some who vehemently oppose Mr. Boehner's plan, said they respected how he had conducted his negotiations with the White House.
Mr. Sherman said that he had never expected the American government to approve the deal, but that he had conducted the negotiations in a way to let him push the Apotex drug onto the market.
Mr. Zucker had conducted complicated negotiations over a period of months with representatives of the two stars, trying to work out a plan that would keep Mr. O'Brien at NBC.
Reuters said that Mr Nisman claimed last week that President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner had conducted secret negotiations with Iran through non-diplomatic channels, offering to cover up the involvement of Iranian officials so Argentina could start swapping grain for much-needed oil from Iran.
General Zinni agreed, and said that the Navy had conducted the negotiations with the port authority at Aden for the refueling services and that he was responsible for the initial assessment that it was safe to return to Yemen after that country had suffered more than a decade of civil war and strife.
Last month, prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found dead in his apartment with a gunshot wound to the head, the night before he was due to testify before congress that Fernández and her allies had conducted secret negotiations with Iran to reach a preferential trade deal in return for suppressing arrest warrants against Iranian suspects in the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish centre.
