Stern eventually got the union to back the deal because, just as in Hollywood, bit players far outnumber the stars.
Lukoil representatives - currently in Baghdad for talks - said they had won back the deal, while Iraqi officials indicated that there were still disagreements.
The planned merger of commodities trader Glencore and mining group Xstrata has moved a step closer after Xstrata's second-largest shareholder said it would back the deal.
We have had terrible outcomes and what we have to do therefore is review what we are doing and come back and deal with it properly.
He received financing to back the deal, the largest merger-and-acquisition transaction introduced in Asia last year, from a group of banks including United Overseas Bank Ltd.
The EU Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, urged MEPs to back the deal, arguing that high roaming charges are an obstacle to the single market and an irritant to people in Europe.
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is prepared to back a deal on stalled sick-pay legislation that would require New York City businesses with 20 or more employees to provide five paid sick days beginning next year, according to the lead sponsor of the bill.
When Huffington first took the deal back to her partners, a couple of them protested.
It had been under discussion for months with rumblings of a deal back in March.
Mr Kohl would do well not to overemphasise this when selling the Maastricht deal back home.
It had been under discussion for months with had been rumblings of a deal back in March.
That should cheer Thailand's business lobby, which, with the army, underwrote the back-room deal that brought the Democrats to power.
Garvey scored 50 points in his first two seasons at Sixways, which earned him a two-year deal back in 2008.
Wednesday's announcement didn't come out of left field though, as there had been rumblings of a deal back in March.
Nook Media's assets also include a college bookstore chain, which the main Barnes and Noble business may take back if any deal is signed.
Jean-Claude Trichet, currently the governor of the Bank of France, was meant to be a shoo-in following a back-door deal in 1998.
The clubs want a 50% shareholding in the Heineken Cup and claim the RFU has gone back on a deal struck last October.
" I will not be part of any back-room deal, and I will absolutely not agree to increase taxes, " he vowed in a written statement.
"There will be no last-minute, back-room deal and absolutely no agreement to increase taxes, " Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement issued before the talks.
But when we stand back from the deal, I suspect the larger questions will be around the actual amount of debt relief that has been offered to Greece.
And thanks to a flexible labour market and an open economy it has already clawed back a good deal of the cost competitiveness it lost during the boom years.
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In a 2010 conference call with investors, Penske was frank about the fact that he had already made his money back on the deal, despite the low level of sales.
The group of roughly 60 people focused on the "Draw Something" franchise, a game that showed tremendous growth and promise before Zynga's acquisition but has seen its popularity pull back since the deal.
But, after an outpouring of criticism - from governments, technology companies, privacy advocates and consumer watchdogs - as well as formal objections from the US Department of Justice, the presiding Judge sent the deal back to the drawing board.
When President Vaclav Klaus was narrowly re-elected for a second five-year term in 2008, critics of the indirect election process alleged that it was not sufficiently transparent and gave the impression that an agreement between the various political factions was only reached after protracted back-room deal-making.
The Novatek deal was on the back of the landmark BP-Rosneft deal in January and will likely look even more attractive, given the turmoil in the Middle East.
He went back to the negotiating table with the Rose Garden creditors and worked out a deal to buy back the arena in 2007.
The roots of the dispute go back to a 1997 deal brokered by Hindery.
LevelUp only makes money if the same customers who take the first deal come back.
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