Assemblyman Richard L. Brodsky, a Westchester Democrat, who sponsored authority legislation, said that demands by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to have more power over his own appointees to authority boards — ostensibly independent — had put the negotiations in doubt.
Bruce Helford, who is currently producing four half-hour, network comedies -- including "The Drew Carey Show" and "Norm" for ABC -- said the recent success of reality programs had made the timing of the labor negotiations unfortunate, and had put writers at a disadvantage.
"We waged war but made a compromise," he said, insisting that during his seven months in office his once anti-austerity party had put up a tough defence in negotiations with the EU and International Monetary Fund.
Asked if the prime minister had put a freeze on the nuclear negotiations, which are key to India easing its energy crisis, one of his chief foreign policy advisers, K. Subrahmanyam, said: "I don't know if he has put it in the refrigerator or in the freezer.
Though Yanukovich told Ukrainian television that he had not "coordinated" with Russia on his decision, prominent lawmaker and billionaire chocolate maker Petro Poroshenko said it was clear that Moscow had put pressure on Ukraine before the negotiations in Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital.
The recent postelection turmoil, however, has put those negotiations in question.
The European Commission has already put negotiations for Hungarian financial aid on hold, and it threatened to press legal action if the government did not amend the laws to comply with European norms.
"Some of the things described in this interview they have put forward in negotiations.
It has put out feelers for negotiations with the ruling party, which South Africa is keen to broker, but little progress has been made.
Recent negotiations have put Orange in a position where it can terminate the contract in the future, but at the moment the legal framework was not favourable, he said.
