Because, in keeping with labor history, there does seem to be some downsizing of negotiating teams and a recalibration of the bargaining process.

But those negotiating teams were clearly not evenly balanced.

It turned out the room was full of negotiating teams going back 25 years.

Negotiating teams from Volvo and the Swedish Government, which each own 42.7 percent of Procordia's voting rights, continue to discuss the proposal.

Mr. Landsbergis said this week that he expected negotiating teams to start talking in September.

When their training is over, they are assigned to negotiating teams under Ms. Spíndola's command or at the foreign or agriculture ministries.

After four days of not talking to each other, negotiating teams from G.M. and the union began informal talks tonight.

Venter's next step was to negotiate and recruit individual teams under the XploIT name.

The negotiating teams were not successful.

But the agreement, reached yesterday by negotiating teams from the airline and the pilots' union, faces considerable hurdles.