These negotiations do not appear to have produced progress, however.
He said those discussions had produced "progress" toward resolution of the issue.
The method usually produces progress in the range of 40 to 120 feet per day.
The meetings, however, failed to produce progress on either count, and the prospects for a breakthrough on Mr. Clinton's watch seem as dim as ever.
Two days of meetings, however, failed to produce progress on either count, and the prospects for a breakthrough on Mr. Clinton's watch seem as dim as ever.
That means she could issue her order as soon as the middle of next week, giving Boylan's talks just a few days to produce progress.
The threat alone that the world's leaders gathering in London this week might finger tax havens and secrecy jurisdictions as guilty parties at the heart of the collapse of the financial system has produced progress of sorts.
It ends a seven-week lawmaking period -- the longest of the year -- that produced progress on several pieces of significant legislation, though often at odds with Mr. Bush's agenda.
The sparring came just days after Mr. Clinton's meeting with key Congressional leaders at the White House failed to produce progress in freeing a modest gun control package from the House-Senate conference committee where it has been stalled for months.
The Palestinian move comes three weeks after Israel's prime minister, Ariel Sharon, said that if the Middle East peace plan did not produce progress in the coming months, his government would be prepared to take steps on its own to separate Israelis and Palestinians.
