For a year, the water company has been negotiating quietly with the state.

Since then the committee and the White House have been quietly negotiating how much of the report could be released.

Many Russian residents are quietly negotiating to exchange their apartments for homes in other republics.

Officials quietly negotiated the route with Archbishop Tutu and the other leaders.

The accord, which would take effect next January, was quietly negotiated by American and Soviet officials.

If Google had hoped to maintain its Chinese operations, and work through any differences, it would have negotiated quietly, the way most foreign businesses do.

Apple Computer is quietly negotiating a link with Sony.

But he usually preferred to negotiate quietly behind the scenes, promising to save defendants from unnecessary ignominy.

He said that he would deliver on the health-insurance-reform bargain that had been quietly negotiated over a period of years.

The warnings are occurring at a time when the administration has been quietly negotiating with several companies, including Maximus Inc., to operate the employment centers.