Already, local officials are negotiating with the airlines to offer direct service.

In other cases, officials negotiate an exclusive contract with a private school for all of a city's students.

European officials and China are still negotiating over the quota issue.

The union activists try to persuade the officials to negotiate.

Officials will negotiate with the two bidders to make a final choice.

Officials are negotiating with international and local companies over naming rights for 23 stations on the two lines.

But many Republicans have expressed alarm at the possibility that federal officials might negotiate drug prices.

While American officials are negotiating to reverse the government's decision, they have yet to complain about it publicly.

Officials negotiated those agreements only hours before a news conference announcing the final deal with Disney.

Officials at that time were negotiating with other campuses about accepting Milton students.