At Annapolis, Mr. Bush got a taste of life as a hands-on negotiator when he helped Mr. Abbas and Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, put the finishing touches on their "joint understanding".
GEORGETOWN, Del., Nov. 23 - The chairman of the Walt Disney Company, George J. Mitchell, a hands-on negotiator in international peace talks, preferred to rely on trusted advisers when it came to hiring and firing Michael S. Ovitz as president nearly 10 years ago.
"There hasn't been any serious discussion on it," one negotiator said.
Saudi royals have never sought to be hands-on negotiators.
Using rich data based on taped negotiations, we demonstrate that the effect of accountability on joint costs is indirect through its effect on negotiators' choice of negotiation tactics and the extent to which negotiators can reduce their fixed-pie biases.
We hypothesize and test a model that predicts that the type of accountability affects negotiated outcomes through its effect on negotiators' fixed-pie bias revisions and the negotiation tactics they employ during customer-supplier negotiations.
Tens of thousands of activists demonstrated to exert pressure on negotiators, and rightly so.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, has kept the heat on negotiators.
This in turn has increased the pressure on negotiators for cheap solutions that are the least politically risky.
An earlier walkout by African nations at talks in Barcelona, he noted, had served to raise public awareness of their grievances and helped put pressure on negotiators.
Some wealthier nations argued that the issue had been sprung on negotiators, others that it was premature to resolve it at this stage.
