When the N.H.L. resumes play, it will do so with a new economic system in which there is either a negotiated figure for player payroll or some variation of a cost-certain system that establishes a much closer connection between revenue and payroll.
'Chasing The Hill' has a multi-million dollar cast on a multi-thousand-dollar budget and it's due largely to listening and negotiating, figuring out how to provide what people want in return for what the project needs.
But Portsmouth negotiated that figure into the final package while the monies that they already owed to Tottenham in instalments on previous transfers were factored in as well.
Like U.S. Steel, they asked government authorities what they should pay in order to take off the political pressure, and were told (or negotiated) a figure.
The authority, he said, was still negotiating final figures with the contractors.
Though he used lawsuits in support of civil rights far more frequently than had his predecessors in the Eisenhower administration, Mr. Marshall's preference was to negotiate, with figures as diverse as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama.
Unlike previous presidents and aides, neither Donald Trump nor his daughter and his son-in-law have divested themselves of business interests even while holding meetings and negotiating with figures around the world who could impact their private incomes.
That negotiating figure caused Deutsche Bank's stock to plummet and raised questions about the bank's stability and the risks it poses to the financial system.
"It's the domino theory," Zeisler said, "and the imprimatur of your peers". For fiscal 1988, beginning Oct. 1, the nation's arts community is asking for a $200-million budget for the arts endowment, although that may only be a negotiating figure.
Ms. Spencer negotiated its swirling figures and multiphonics deftly.
In a country where speeding tickets are directly tied to income on a sliding scale, he racked up a 116,000 euro ($170,000) fine racing his motorcycle through Helsinki, although he was able to negotiate that figure down somewhat.
