And while Mr. Spitzer followed a traditional path and negotiated mainly with the powerful legislative leaders, Mr. Cuomo will follow what advisers said was a more Washington-style approach, dealing directly with rank-and-file lawmakers.
The agreement, negotiated mainly by former Secretary of State John Kerry and Iran's Zarif, took two years of pouring over each word.
He said the government's top priority would now be tackling Colombia's social problems.Mr Pastrana left unchanged his defence and foreign minsters, who are close political friends and who were involved in negotiating $1.3 billion in (mainly) military aid from the United States.
This is to be accomplished mainly by negotiating a fixed electricity price with potential investors, as will be outlined in a new energy bill, due to be published by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) in the next few weeks.
And it may have been mainly a negotiating ploy, but Mr. Jobs said in a conference call with analysts last week that he was meeting with other studios in the event that Disney did not agree to a pact more favorable to Pixar in the future.
The BBC's Jon Leyne in Benghazi says the anti-Gaddafi forces have mainly been negotiating with tribal leaders both in Sirte and the other two main remaining Gaddafi strongholds of Bani Walid and Sabha, deep in the Sahara desert region.
Health diplomacy as it was then practiced focused mainly on negotiating international disease control conventions, the first one of which was concluded in 1903.
Mr Ecclestone mainly negotiated it not with big car companies but with the less careful entrepreneurs who then owned the teams, getting a very good deal in the process.
The state's existing persistent offender laws are considered weak and useful mainly to prosecutors negotiating plea bargains.
But it is also because the Conservatives' tricky merger went surprisingly well, thanks mainly to the negotiating skill of Stephen Harper, the Alliance leader.
