So Mr Knapp, always a fast mover, was able to crash into the talks and close a deal.
Still, administration officials see the trip as a chance not to close a deal, but to improve communication.
He met with financial and legal advisers who can help him quickly close a deal if he spies a bargain.
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Salesmen knew that deep discounts could cement relationships with big customers or close a deal before the crucial end of the quarter.
Discounting has its place, but only discount to close a deal.
Verizon will probably have to improve its offer a bit to close a deal, he says, but at the end of the day, it's going to get MCI.
On Wednesday, GM announced that its year-long effort to close a deal with Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machines Co. was dead, and it would begin to wind down Hummer operations.
Gone are the days when a charismatic and persistent salesperson could close a deal based on personality alone, or a combination of personality, persistence, and the general demographic drift of a publication.
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Republicans speak dismissively of such pledges, saying that in earlier negotiations, the president has never been willing to close a deal with the type of changes he often says he will accept.
It seems one week before Mask and the Board of Directors were about to close a deal with another unnamed investor, Olga Lozovskaya of Goldman Sachs made a call out of the blue to talk to Mask.
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The son of tycoon Li Ka-shing, Richard Li recently snatched HKT from the grasp of Singapore Telecom, a government-linked corporation, just as it was about to close a deal for a majority stake in Hong Kong's dominant telco.
In the halls of the US Senate, a bipartisan group of senators is close to a deal on legislation that would require tough border security measures to be in place before undocumented immigrants could gain legal status.
It is rumored that Davis has put up a piece of his team for sale but that every time he gets close to a deal, he balks.
Next up: Cisco, which is close to a deal to market Net2Phone software with its Internet routers.
Raytheon is also reported to be close to a deal to ally with Racal, a small British defence-electronics firm.
Earlier this month, EMI was also reportedly close to a deal with Spotify to bring the service across the Atlantic.
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Should the world-trade talks ever get close to a deal, the government would be unlikely to resist pressure to reduce its dairy protection.
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Although he has yet to close on a deal, Thornburg, a former Bear, Stearns limited partner, is already the talk of the fundraising world.
Every time lawmakers seemingly get close to a deal that will restore fiscal responsibility but instead fail, we at Vanguard hear the concerns of investors.
Reports this week suggested that the company was close to a deal to acquire a majority stake in NBC Universal, a television and film outfit.
Sources have told BBC Sport that Weber and Toyota are very close to a deal for Schumacher to drive for the Japanese team in 2005.
Talks between Greece and its creditors stalled early last week, but by Friday they were reportedly close to a deal on writing down their debt.
Meanwhile, Mr Jones said the Welsh government was close to a deal with the owners of Cardiff Airport that would bring the troubled business under the control of his ministers.
Multiple reports from the negotiating table say that after three weeks of public and media scrutiny of the performance of its replacement officials, the NFL is close to a deal to bring the regulars back.
TechCrunch reported on Saturday that Facebook is close to a deal to move to the former Sun site from its current 150, 000 square foot home on California Avenue in Palo Alto, close to the Stanford University campus.
One question on the budget, pivoting off of some comments the President just had in Landover, sounding somewhat optimistic about being close to a deal, at least on the number to be cut, but the details to be worked out.
NextWave is reportedly close to a deal with Cingular, a joint venture between SBC Communications (nyse: SBC - news - people ) and BellSouth (nyse: BLS - news - people ), to license 20% of the wireless spectrum space in controls in 93 of the top 100 U.S. markets.
Colchester are also close to completing a deal to sign Icelandic international forward Mathias Vilhjalmsson.
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