The New York Mets and the city are negotiating to keep history - at least selected parts of it - from repeating itself.
The reason, in part, was that the governor's office, in trying to forestall a greater sense of uncertainty surrounding the energy crisis, was negotiating to keep the utilities solvent by buying their transmission lines.
A contract specifies acceptable variations on the availability of these properties and how service replacement can be negotiated to keep the QoS of the application within the acceptable limits.
ITV's withdrawal from F1 was an entirely cost-driven, pragmatic decision dictated by the fact that last week it was also negotiating to keep the rights for Champions League matches that currently bring the channel a predominantly male mid-evening audience through half the year.
His announcement in Bridgewater, N.J., came five days after a group of investors, which is negotiating to buy the Nets and keep the team in New Jersey, met with the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority to discuss the renovation of the team's current arena in the Meadowlands and a new lease.
AA is negotiating to buy Aerolineas Argentinas.
The United States, Australia, Malaysia, Vietnam and Peru are negotiating to join.
As Iraqi and American officials were negotiating last summer to keep American troops in Iraq into 2012, the Iraqis refused to grant American troops immunity from Iraqi law, in large part because of violent episodes like the one in Nisour Square.
One day, in DC, he realized that if he got mugged, he would actually have had to negotiate to keep these: They were, potentially, far more valuable than anything he could carry in his wallet.
Last month, lawyers for both sides said they were negotiating a plea deal to keep the case from going to trial, which would reveal potentially embarrassing details about Hastert and the anonymous person to whom he was providing the money.
