It would eliminate the longstanding practice of negotiating health care payments in contract talks with the unions, instead imposing those terms through legislation.
He defended his practice of negotiating key sections of important legislation and the budget behind closed doors or in his smoke-filled tent.
But on Tuesday, Mr. Malone said during a break that unlike Mr. Maffei, he would have preferred his longstanding practice of negotiating differences rather than litigating them.
Since that is unlikely to happen anytime soon, the services should expand the recent practice of negotiating partnerships with private developers to meet military housing needs.
The Citizens Budget Commission, a business-backed research group, urged the Giuliani administration yesterday to abandon the city's longtime practice of negotiating a contract with one union that sets a pattern for all other contracts.
Among those is a ban on dual tracking – the practice of negotiating with clients to modify a mortgage while simultaneously pursuing foreclosure.
The law's provisions include a requirement that servicers provide a single point of contact for troubled borrowers and a ban on dual tracking, the practice of negotiating over a loan modification while at the same time pursuing a foreclosure.
It required they be given a single representative to work with and banned servicers from so-called dual tracking — the practice of negotiating with clients to modify a mortgage while simultaneously pursuing foreclosure.
The White House has said it is ending its practice of negotiating with Republicans over raising the debt limit, something it did at length with House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) in 2011.
Finally, the Brazil-GSK deal suggests that, while large countries with domestic manufacturing capacity may be able to negotiate acceptable prices and technology transfer agreements, for smaller countries without production capacity, the practice of negotiating prices country by country may be less favorable.
