After extensive and bitter negotiations, a buyout was reached through an arbitrator.

The playgrounds opened last November after years of sometimes bitter negotiations involving the city, the local community board, neighborhood associations and preservationists.

But these days he sounds bitter at the twist negotiations with the Jets have taken.

He saw the sometimes bitter negotiations as another step toward encouraging frankness, unbottling feelings.

To avoid bitter negotiations with their opponents, they have often opted for one-year license extensions.

These topics are all issues in bitter negotiations that have now extended 2 1/2 years beyond expiration of the contract.

Tough and sometimes bitter negotiations followed, and finally in mid-September a compromise was reached.

If ratified by the 1,000 officers and 295 superiors next month, the contract would end two years of often bitter negotiations.

Parties make up after bitter negotiations all the time, according to Roberts.

Despite the bitter negotiations concerned, essentially, with budgetary aspects, the three institutions wanted, above all, to send a joint message to the citizens of Europe.