State Department officials and diplomats have been pushing to quickly close a deal with the Taliban.
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.
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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Earlier this month, EMI was also reportedly close to a deal with Spotify to bring the service across the Atlantic.
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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.
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.
And we have great familiarity with indebted Americans having been one until recently, and now helping a close relative deal with aggressive debt purchasers.
However, Giroud has revealed he is close to securing a deal with a top-level club - but not Celtic.
Hallier says Show Media is close to inking a deal with a bank that might use it to flash updated CD rates in real time.
The Finance Ministry is close to inking a deal with the Swiss government to end the decades long secrecy to secret, undeclared bank accounts of the super rich.
The new team is called Lotus Racing but BBC Sport understands they are close to finalising a deal with the owners of the Team Lotus brand to reinstate the historic name.
House Democrats say they were close to reaching a deal with the White House on a bailout proposal, which would include limits on executive compensation and Treasury Department oversight on managing the bailout.
Many funds already keep a close watch on how firms deal with a variety of controversies, from genetically modified foods to third-world labour standards.
Raytheon is also reported to be close to a deal to ally with Racal, a small British defence-electronics firm.
France believes Tutsi rebels led by Mr Kagame were responsible for killing Mr Habyarimana because, they say, he was close to signing a peace deal with the rebels.
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The company is negotiating with unions to close two facilities in the U.K. by mid-year and recently struck a deal with unions to close an assembly plant in Genk, Belgium.
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Meanwhile, the United States is close to completing a bilateral trade deal with Chile.
The firm that failed to provide enough security guards for London 2012 is close to reaching a deal for compensation with the organising committee, the BBC has learnt.
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Israel's centrist opposition leader, Tzipi Livni insists that she came close to sealing a peace deal in 2008 with the Palestinians when she was foreign minister in the government replaced by Mr Netanyahu's coalition.
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This twelfth trading week of 2013 comes to a close with investors breathing a sigh of relief as a banking deal between Greece and Cyprus emerged that eased fears of a financial meltdown on the island.
He had only slightly better luck in the States, signing a deal with Eos, a Paso Robles, Calif. winery close to bankruptcy.
Then too, Turkey's rise in prominence in the US in the 1990s owed a great deal to its close strategic ties with Israel.
After all, despite lots of noise from the Justice Department, the Federal Trade Commission, and the European Commission, even Google, with all its dominance in search advertising, has not yet been charged or sued on antitrust grounds (though it came close when it tried to do a search deal with Yahoo in 2008).
Salesmen knew that deep discounts could cement relationships with big customers or close a deal before the crucial end of the quarter.
Early in the second half, Andrew Driver nodded in from close range as Motherwell failed to deal with a Robbie Neilson long throw-in.
Instead, it sets a keen price, and then relies on a vast network of resellers and retailers to close the deal with customers.
He figures a deal funded with 40% equity and 60% debt would offer a potential buyer a return of close to 40%, or maybe better.
He had only slightly better luck in the States, signing a deal with Eos, a Paso Robles, California winery close to bankruptcy.
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