The agreed-upon general principles become the framework, the skeleton, upon which the contract is built.My survey of negotiating styles found that the French, the Argentineans, and the Indians tended to view deal making as a top down (deductive process);while the Japanese, the Mexicans and the Brazilians tended to see it as a bottom up (inductive) process.A further difference in negotiating style is seen in the dichotomy between the "building-down" approach and the "building-up approach.