Despite their ambiguities, UN resolution 242 (1967), which encapsulated the principle of land for peace, and resolution 338 (1973), which called for direct negotiations, were regarded by both parties as the starting points for negotiations.
The Fiscal Cliff negotiators chose to ignore most of that work, however, and instead of using the draft bills as starting points for negotiations, they wrote their own farm bill extension.
The two sides cannot find even a starting point for negotiation.
"They're not requirements but aspirational targets – they are a starting point for negotiation".
From the perspective of 2016, the neat map of red and blue states looks more, as Trump might put it, like a starting point for negotiation.
Surely it provided a starting point for negotiation on many issues, and it secured the moral high ground for Union leaders denouncing such Confederate depredations as the massacre of black troops at Fort Pillow.
The NHS England chief executive, Simon Stevens, has called for £8bn of additional resources, while the Health Foundation thinktank insisted: "This cannot be seen as the starting point for negotiation that can be whittled away, nor does it allow politicians to commit the NHS to lots of new initiatives".
You have to keep in mind that coming up with a value for your technology/invention is only the starting point for negotiation.
And if you?re starting a new company, technology valuation also offers a starting point for negotiation of equity structures with your investors.
