All past negotiations between Eastern and its machinists have ended without a strike.

"A number of the participants, including you, remarked about how different and more positive these discussions seemed to be compared to past negotiations."

American negotiators seemed convinced that Japan would concede at the last minute, as it has in past negotiations.

All have been exhaustively discussed in past negotiations, from 1992.

In past negotiations, many of their members have shown a willingness to support whatever party offers the best deal.

Each agency has a favorite problem left over from past negotiations.

Nearly all the past negotiations were born of Arab-Jewish violence or war.

In past negotiations, the players benefited from the increases generated by new television contracts.

"It's not an ideal atmosphere," a former senior official who was deeply involved in past negotiations said recently.

But we don't do ourselves credit by overlooking the fact that there are additional opportunities as a result of past negotiations.