And though many on the owners' side say they believe renewed talk of a strike is primarily a negotiating tool of the union, Hall insists the threat is real and promised the players would walk away from the game before they'd walk away from the negotiating table with a CBA that didn't include free agency.
But this deal appears to have been negotiated primarily with Khaled Mashal, a top Hamas leader based in Damascus, Syria.
The plan announced Monday involves no money from taxpayers, and it was negotiated primarily between the banks themselves.
Lots of reports today on the Microsoft-Yahoo negotiation, which is now in its third month of drama and appears to be being negotiated primarily through the media.
"My hope is that in the future we do have a peace agreement, negotiated primarily by Africans from East Africa, that the United States will move in again and have a much greater impact deliberately orchestrated from the White House and the State Department, both politically and economically, to help South Sudan stabilize itself and become economically viable," he said.
That sounds incredibly irresponsible in hindsight, but you have to realize that hijackers in that era were primarily interested in negotiating, not causing mass destruction.
As the months dragged on, Connaughton began to suspect that Dodd was negotiating primarily on his own behalf, using the ideal of bipartisanship as a cover to weaken financial reform and end up with a bill that Wall Street could live with.
UNICEF played a lead agency role in OLS and was primarily responsible for negotiating the original 'corridors of tranquillity' into towns across the Kenya-Sudan border.
He negotiated the sale primarily with twenty-six-year-old Gus Wenner, the heir apparent of the company, which was co-founded by his father, Jann.
Another massive trade experiment -- especially one that has been negotiated in secret primarily by corporations and that few people have been allowed to examine including the members of congress who are supposed to vote on it is not the light that will guide the country's economy out of darkness.
