China's biggest airline is closing in on a deal for a 51% stake in the proposed cargo joint venture to be based in Shanghai.

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His feeling, shared by many: After three-plus months of acrimonious negotiations and another three weeks on strike, the Writers Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers may be closing in on a deal.

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Then, like a middle-income couple with young children, the league decided Manhattan was too crowded and too expensive, and it spent the past year closing in on a deal for a stadium in Queens in an area filled with soccer-crazed immigrants that would be a cheap, 20-minute train ride from Manhattan.

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American Airlines and US Airways announced today they have agreed on the terms of a merger, successfully closing the deal in an industry now dominated by a few mammoth carriers.

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If you are a thoughtful golfer who engages in good conversation on the course, you will increase your chances for closing a deal.

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