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Relevant agreements are in the process of being signed one by one, with some of them still under negotiation.

James Gleick

Patent battles have become a strong catalyst for mergers, reducing competition in various domains. The largest corporations, with gigantic patent portfolios, routinely enter into cross-licensing agreements with their largest competitors.

Such issues must be solved by realizing appropriate agreements fit with all concerning parties. It may take more time, effort and diplomatic skills, any issue may need a long time to reveal the truth about it.

Bob McAdoo

Overall, these new agreements and settlements have enabled United to reduce its non-fuel cost per available seat mile (cost per available seat mile ex-fuel) by approximately 22% during the three years while in bankruptcy.

Richard Boucher

It is important to us to be able to keep working with the parties and try to do what we can diplomatically to calm the situation, get back to implementation of the agreements of the cease-fire.

Fay Vincent

I think he (Selig) is probably better able to get support among owners, ... But they're trying to roll back 25 years of labor agreements in one round. I was telling them the best you can do is incremental improvement -Ê it's going to take a long time to straighten out this. They didn't want to hear that.

Ariel Sharon

I am aware that peace requires painful compromises. Any agreements will be based on security,

But for peaceful purposes and when agreements can be worked out and when understandings can be had then what we are talking about is economic development opportunities, peaceful and useful opportunities... Then I think we are on the same page.

China has not lived up to any other trade agreements over the last decade... They don't have any compliance or enforcement.

China has not lived up to any other trade agreements over the last decade, ... They don't have any compliance or enforcement.

China has normal, conventional military trade with other countries which abides by China's policies and law and agreements China has signed.

Paul Tagliabue

I think the critical thing now is we're at the point where it's recognized, certainly by us, that the time is right, ... We have to get agreements finalized. We'll be pursuing agreements in Anaheim. We're going to work with both communities for an agreement.

It is clear that the White House has made a policy decision that we are going to honor our international agreements on ISS, and we are going to continue to fly the shuttle in order to launch the international components.

Having an endangered or candidate species on your property should be a good thing, something a landowner can be proud of, not something to avoid. With the administrative reforms we have made to the Endangered Species Act, such as safe harbor agreements, habitat conservation plans, and candidate conservation agreements with assurances, ranchers, timber companies and other landowners are able to participate in the conservation of at-risk species without the concern that their future plans may be delayed or halted.

Max Baucus

For the United States, Malaysia represents a major commercial player - in the same league as France, Italy, Taiwan, and the Netherlands. In the past, we have spent too much time, effort, and resources negotiating agreements with small countries of little commercial significance.

We must have a full debate and votes on issues such as China's pitiful human rights record, China's brutal suppression of religious freedom, China's increasingly belligerent stance toward the Democratic Chinese government on Taiwan and China's unbroken record of violated agreements one after another on other matters. You can't trust them,

Glenn Tilton

We look forward to continued cooperation with all of our unions and employee groups as we work to reach consensual agreements that will help us redesign our business and compete more effectively in the long term.

We made these agreements only because it is painfully obvious that the results of bankruptcy proceedings would have been far worse. The company has been provided with everything it needs to survive. We can only hope that they will not squander the opportunity our members have provided them.

Martin Frost

If the board is uncomfortable with the financial situation, and if the board does not feel like these agreements will go forward, the board could vote to file Chapter 11 (Thursday).

We're in the process of negotiating agreements that we think are going to be very significant.

James Wolfensohn

One of the assumptions that divides institutions of faith from those based on politics and international agreements is the automatic assumption that you have to teach me spirituality, that you have to give me a moral center, that you must convince me there's more to development than economic mechanisms.

One of the agreements signed today concerns supplementary arrangements on the facilities, utilities and services the Cambodian Government would provide for the premises of those Chambers; the other deals with safety and security arrangements.

No other country has the right to interfere in bilateral relations between China and other countries. In our view, agreements reached between China and other governments should be followed.

The plaintiff dropped John Mack from the lawsuit after they understood the fact he played no role in authorizing the employment agreements that are the subject of the suit and didn't join the board until after the agreements were approved.

There are tracts of land that are going to be annexed by the city and are going to be developed by developers that we don't have mitigation agreements with. Part of our job is to continue to get agreements with all of those developers.

Olin's many accomplishments include negotiating on behalf of the US Government a number of financial market agreements with other countries. China is a very important market for AIG.

We are all at work, all the services are prepared for signing the necessary agreements in the remaining eight hours before the end of the day and the year.

This promotion is a reflection of the outstanding job Neil has done positioning Business Wire as truly the global leader in news distribution. He has built Business Wire's global distribution network to an unsurpassed level and has initiated myriad exclusive distribution agreements for the company throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

Sears did not file these agreements in court even though they told the customer who signed them they would.

SEQuester(tm), the patented star product in this new generation of super filters, is intended for the genomics market of automated DNA sequencing laboratories. The product offers sizeable labor savings in the processing of DNA samples and fully enables robotic sequencers. We have discussed tentative agreements for brand alliances and manufacturing through well known distribution channels in the DNA products industry, an overall market worth an estimated U.S. $4 billion.

Donald Evans

Let me tell you the basic fundamental principle by which we sit down and negotiate agreements with our friends: nobody wins unless we all win.

Major League Baseball looks forward to signing a lease so that Washington's baseball fans can enjoy watching their team in a new, state-of-the art stadium. We believe it is important for all parties to honor the terms of the agreements that were made.

Major League Baseball has not yet been provided with the filings made by the D.C. Sports & Entertainment Commission with the City Council last Friday, nor the text of the legislation passed by the Council last night. We are very concerned about what we heard during the debate, and we need to read the materials and the legislative language so we can determine whether they are consistent with the agreements between Major League Baseball and the city.