But while the owners negotiated the overall contract together, they agreed on prices separately.

The owners negotiated the rate down to $500.

Other private owners, especially in Hamden, have not negotiated easements with the town.

The date would be established early enough, he said, to give the owners and the players time to negotiate an agreement.

Q. Have the players and the owners ever negotiated a new agreement without a work stoppage?

The owners are also negotiating what will be a landmark television deal worth $7 billion or more.

Its new owners are also negotiating to bring a restaurant into the ground floor.

The owners and the players have not negotiated since Dec. 14.

The owner is still negotiating with the commission's staff, which only in recent months has shown a disposition to compromise.

In 2002, the owners and the players actually negotiated a new agreement without a work stoppage.