Big employers, including the Ford Motor Company and Verizon Communications, have been pressing in negotiations for the benefit managers to be more open or to eliminate their deals with manufacturers altogether.
Although NATO is at war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban, 10 years later, the European allies have tired of the war and are pressing for negotiations with the Taliban.
The idea is to ameliorate the programs most obviously affected by the shutdown while pressing for negotiations on a broader re-opening of the government tied to changes to President Obama's health care law.
The two sides were still wrangling late Monday over specifics of the timetable, with the Palestinians pressing for negotiations to be completed within the next eight months, a demand the Israelis have rejected.
As late as Wednesday, they said, Russian diplomats had been pressing for negotiations between Georgia and South Ossetia, the breakaway region where the combat flared and then escalated into full-scale war.
On three occasions, she was also asked to explain the seeming contradiction in the United States' urging Pakistan to crack down on the Haqqani network and the Taliban, while Washington was also pressing for negotiations with elements of such groups as part of a political reconciliation in Afghanistan.
As long as it was limiting its lobbying activities to ending the settlements, dividing Jerusalem and pressing for negotiations, it could plausibly claim the mantle of pro-Israel, despite the reality that many of its members, supporters, speakers and invited guests are virulently anti-Israel.
Acquiring a diagnosis of a mental illness or becoming homeless, on the other hand, were mostly "new labels" and identities which required new – and pressing – internal negotiation to determine how it fit or did not fit with who they are, and thus how they would respond to stigma or discrimination based on them.
Democrats have been pressing for formal negotiations since April, when both chambers passed budget and tax policy blueprints that were starkly at odds.
By most accounts, Ms. Rice sided with Mr. Powell against administration hawks in pressing for multilateral negotiations aimed at curtailing nuclear programs in North Korea and Iran.
