And we impose sentences that have been, by and large, negotiated in advance without our involvement".
The union leadership wanted to mobilize the membership and use the pressure of a large negotiating committee to persuade management to continue the three-year contract duration.
Three days of talks between two unusually large negotiating teams have apparently produced the first foreign policy success for the Government of Prime Minister V. P. Singh, which came to power in December promising to make improved relations with India's neighbors its first priority.
China is an important member of the largest negotiating bloc, the G77 group of developing nations, which insists that rich nations must bear more responsibility for cutting emissions since they have been polluting for longer.
But participants in the latest talks, held in Singapore, expressed optimism about the prospects for the trade deal, one of the largest ever negotiated.
The final settlement of nearly $17 billion the largest ever negotiated between the U.S. government and a single company—roughly equals Bank of America's total profit for the past three years, the Wall Street Journal reports.
In the largest lease negotiated so far this year by a law firm, Thelen Reid & Priest will move its 425 lawyers to 178,000 square feet on seven floors in the 29-story tower by November 2002.
All said, the PSI (private sector involvement) deal--the largest ever negotiated write-down of public debt--has reduced the debt burden of every man, woman, and child in Greece by close to €10,000 on average, a sizable contribution on the part of foreign savers.
As she travels around her Karachi Pakistanan's largest city – negotiating deals with buyers, Salma seems like the pinnacle of female achievement.
With none of the large negotiating sessions that generate news media coverage held since late November — but plenty of smaller discussions going on — there have been few indications of progress.
