My concern is, and maybe the mistake was, we should have stopped negotiating against ourselves, because maybe the union's theory was that the owners didn't have the resolve – that would have been inconsistent with the history of this ownership group – but they didn't have the resolve, and that ultimately they keep giving and giving and giving and giving, and the union keeps taking and taking.
The presidential spokesman, Joe Lockhart, said that the motorcade taking Mr. Clinton to the White House and then the airport was set to leave Camp David when word spread around the delegations who had never stopped negotiating that it really was over.
City lawyers have also stopped negotiating with the prosecutors over the stop-and-frisk practices, said a lawyer who has been briefed on the talks.
The government said today that it had stopped trying to negotiate with Muslim rebels holding more than two dozen hostages, and was sending reinforcements to search a southern island and hunt the insurgents down.
But if an agreement does not materialize, he said, the club will have to stop negotiating at some point and seek approval of its plan.
Earlier this month, Mesa said it had stopped the payments as a way to get Raytheon to negotiate on restructuring debt on the Beech turboprop.
The N.B.A. players have been trying to negotiate a new deal for more than four months, and did not disband their union until the league ostensibly stopped negotiating.
After a few months, the government stopped negotiating with them.
Most details were used to underscore the fact that even after officials at Sotheby's and Christie's had agreed among themselves to stop negotiating sellers' commissions along with certain kinds of financing, they went ahead with that sort of dealmaking as if they had never made the commitment.
Beer is from Sharp's Brewery, just along the coast in Rock, and many a thirsty walker has stopped here to watch boats negotiate the mouth of the estuary while nursing a pint of Cornish Coaster.
