At the end of the Bush administration, when the Status of Forces Agreement, or SOFA, was negotiated, setting 2011 as the end of the United States' military role, officials had said the deadline was set for political reasons, to put a symbolic end to the occupation and establish Iraq's sovereignty.
"As appropriate" can be viewed as a debate-deflector in a negotiating setting, a safety exit of sorts.
In a letter to the board released Monday, Gannett said Tribune's management has refused to negotiate, setting up a fight for control of Tribune and its stable of big-city dailies.
In spring 2006, the bank and Mr. Blavatnik's executives negotiated a set of detailed investment guidelines.
It appears instead that the fair use discussion of photocopying of classroom materials was omitted from the final Report because educators and publishers in the interim had negotiated a set of guidelines that rendered the discussion obsolete.
Human rights are for human beings, rather than simply people from Britain, yet Tony Blair negotiated one set of legal rules for British citizens - most favoured nation status - and left the British residents at the mercy of the original Bush plan.
In the past few years it has gone much further by negotiating a set of bilateral agreements with the EU.
A venture fund will negotiate a set of agreements with the founders at the time of its investment with this goal in mind.
The Boss. [C11.] Progress Seen in Privacy Standards The Federal Trade Commission and Internet advertisers said they had made progress negotiating a set of voluntary privacy standards for the companies to follow when building profiles of Web surfers.
Christopher Hill, assistant secretary of state for East Asian affairs, told reporters on Tuesday that it remained unclear whether North Korea would "use this hiatus" in the talks to negotiate a set of principles outlining a "denuclearized" Korean Peninsula.
