That figure does not count the amount spent after Dec. 31, in the final, most intense weeks of negotiating the health care package.
Several of the performers were visiting from India; one of the most remarkable, the Bharatanatyam dancer Rama Vaidyanathan, had just arrived from Delhi that morning, negotiating the intense visa problems that afflict so many visitors from India.
In reality, whatever mental capacity you've got leftover a semester of perpetual hangovers and come downs is going to be used up either coming up with pranks, inventing new drinking games, or negotiating the intense House of Cards-level politics of college life.
Best one-liner: Toss-up between: "Is President Reagan himself scaling the walls of the Rezidentura in his cowboy hat?" There were some very intense scenes with Arkady negotiating with the Israelis for the guy Philip has tied up with an electrical cord.
On the one hand, it was succeeding with an approach that was indebted to Ford's commercial acumen: Casablancas negotiated intense paydays for his girls, helping to usher in the era where one of his stars, Linda Evangelista, famously remarked that she wouldn't "get out of bed for less than $10,000".
It was certainly a high for the golfer, after months of intense talks to negotiate a deal.
But distrust between the two negotiating teams and intense pressure from human rights advocates who sought, unrealistically, to impose their ideal set of legal standards on the process, propelled the United Nations to walk out.
[JB: It was intense.] And we wound up negotiating with them the stuff we wanted to shoot or to keep shooting with them.
The committee vote on Monday night, which Mr. Albrecht said had been delayed twice since April by intense lobbying, gives Mr. Albrecht a mandate to begin negotiating the final legislation with the European Council, the body representing member governments.
After an intense day of discussions at Trinity College Dublin, the two parties' negotiating teams described the arrangement as "the first initiative of its kind".
