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We continue to expect to be in a position to sign a definitive agreement in the first two weeks of January.

We continue to believe our $72 proposal is better for Guidant, its shareholders and its employees than Johnson & Johnson's revised offer. We are offering significantly more value, and there is strong upside potential over time. We continue to move forward on our due diligence with the goal of reaching a definitive agreement with Guidant.

We continue to believe our $72 (per share) proposal is better for Guidant, its shareholders and its employees than Johnson & Johnson's revised offer. We are offering significantly more value, and there is strong upside potential over time. We continue to move forward on our due diligence with the goal of reaching a definitive agreement with Guidant.

We continue our discussions with Avondale. We want to reach a final agreement on that.

Craig Thompson

We can't force them. It's just a good-faith agreement.

is to see how we can take an agreement in principle and begin to see how an agreement in principle can be put into practice.

I think it would be a miracle for us to reach an agreement during this round of bargaining.

I think the states have an agreement in concept on all the difficult points. I am more than optimistic that we will meet the Feb. 2 deadline.

Gary Bettman

It is clear to me that if we're not working on a written document, memorializing our agreement this weekend, I don't see how we can play any semblance of a season,

Mansion will invest money in the English Premier League as we believe it will be a powerful tool to continue our successful international growth. We aim to reach agreement with a club in the coming months and look forward to working closely with a team that is passionate about building our brand around the world in an open partnership.

I'm hoping there will be some voting repercussions. The (county) commissioners really let us down. (Commissioners) Steve Stuart and Marc Boldt gave us verbal agreement that they would do anything they could to keep the clinic from opening.

Douglas Alexander

I'm in agreement with David Miliband when he says our generation of Labour politicians are not willing to hand over the direction of the country without a serious electoral fight.

Jerry Jones

We can both disappoint each other in this agreement. But this is no free lunch to the Dallas Cowboys. We made a commitment to him. That means something.

We came to an agreement within the past hour.

We came to an agreement that acknowledges what everybody wants - the player being rewarded for performance.

We are not pulling out from the cease-fire agreement or anything.

We forged both of those agreements so that Abbott's vascular business will have some significant growth opportunities in either situation.

We made clear that we were concerned about the perception of an agreement with the AFA. The perception that a big company from corporate America had made a pact with an extremist organization was very worrying.

The problem is not yet solved but we hope it can be solved eventually through this agreement. We have to take the momentum of this agreement and see that it is implemented.

We have a tentative agreement. We don't expect anything to be changed.

We have not seen sufficient progress, ... Whether or not we can reach an agreement ... depends on North Korea's efforts.

We have not come to an agreement that meets the needs of our domestic manufacturers and retailers.

The problems associated with implementing CAFTA demonstrate what we've been saying all along: this agreement goes beyond trade in requiring dramatic changes in domestic laws that grant new rights to transnational corporations at the expense of working people.

Those changes basically extend the agreement to the community schools teachers, who are in a separate union, and to some teachers who are eligible to retire.

We anticipate a complete resolution of the entire litigation. We reached an oral agreement on all the principled terms, but it is complex so we are going to spend today writing it all up.

We are committed to full compliance with all export control measures and believe this agreement will allow us to assure the State Department that we will meet all of our export control obligations. The settlement is in recognition of the government's concerns about protecting national security through strict regulatory controls.

We are in intensified negotiations with union leaders in order to reach consensual agreements that reduce labor costs by $1.4 billion annually.

We are hoping to reach an agreement later today.

We are disappointed obviously that the union decided today to set a strike date. Our hope had been that we could get an agreement with the players without the players taking this step that causes such concern to so many of our fans. Our disappointment is magnified by the fact that as a result of compromises by both sides we made substantial progress towards a new agreement over the past weeks. A number of important issues have been resolved and we are close on many others.

Andrew Demetriou

We are delighted with the financial result - this income will greatly assist the game to grow nationally at all levels. There was more to the agreement than just the dollar value, however, with market reach and exposure given equal weighting in the decision-making process.

We are delighted to reach agreement with Remedy on an acquisition that will allow us to serve a broader range of customers with an expanded line of products and development platforms,

We are delighted to have reached agreement with the GAA in a very positive, productive and businesslike manner.

Christian Horner

We are delighted to have extended our agreement with Michelin for the 2006 season, which forms another significant part of our overall package for next year,