No progress has been made in the sporadic negotiations.

The flight attendants' last contract expired in 1996, and the two sides have held sporadic negotiations since.

Today, after a decade of sporadic and unsuccessful negotiations, state officials said that they had had enough and had taken the first step toward evicting the boaters.

By the time sporadic negotiations with the gunmen were interrupted - shortly before 5 P.M. - preparations for the attack were already well under way.

The most recent teachers' contract expired two years ago, and after 18 months of sporadic negotiations, the union asked a state oversight panel to declare an impasse.

As the winter of 1191-1192 approached, sporadic negotiations between Richard the Lionheart and Saladin were taken up, though without any immediate result.

Mr. Ovitz's company and the Firm have been in secret and sporadic negotiations since late last year.

The striking players eventually returned to their teams, and sporadic and caustic negotiations never came close to reaching labor peace.

The 40 days of the strike saw dozens of mass demonstrations, a pair of lawsuits, court injunctions and sporadic negotiations.

He spent the autumn and winter of 1861 with this unit in Central Texas and engaged in sporadic negotiations and skirmishes with local Indian groups.