Despite a key agreement between business and labor groups, lawmakers from both parties say negotiations aren't finished.
The areas presently subject to QMV are limited, with key issues requiring agreement by all EU members.
The proposed key steps of agreement between the parent companies include each parent taking on parts of ST-Ericsson.
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Headteachers' leader, David Hart, said that adopting a measurement system based on the individual progress of children - and not measuring them against national benchmarks - could be the key to an agreement.
Mr Blair has indicated that he will give Northern Ireland his full attention as the key Good Friday Agreement date, 22 May approaches, when it was intended that the process of paramilitary disarmament would have been completed.
Understanding the true barriers to a comprehensive agreement is key to knowing where the pressure to compromise will be coming from.
Correspondents say it is the US and China - the world's two largest carbon emitters - that hold the key to striking an agreement.
The Senate cast more votes to break filibusters last year than in the entire 1950s and '60s combined, making it nearly impossible to come to agreement on key legislation.
According to a senior U.S. official, a key element to the agreement is that the Afghans can invoke a procedure that insures prisoners considered dangerous would not be released from the detention center.
It began in May, with the announcement of a bipartisan deal between the White House and Congress, and ended in August when the tax bill and other key elements in the agreement were signed.
The referendum pledge was a key part of coalition agreement between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats but the proposed 5 May date has angered opposition MPs in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, who believe it will detract from national elections there.
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In addition, a key critic of the Colombia agreement seems to be softening his opposition.
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The agreement - a key step towards banking union - will be put before European leaders later on Thursday.
This agreement is a key pillar in JiWire's mobile audience and location data platform that combines both Wi-Fi and mobile media.
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But a spokeswoman for the pilots union said the new budget airline violates key points of a previous agreement between pilots and Iberia.
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So an agreement is actually key, but whether it will happen with our without a 48-hour extension of the deadline is another thing altogether.
The Seattle group has an agreement to upgrade Key Arena in Seattle and has the financing in place for the private funding portion for a new arena.
The Constituent Assembly failed to reach agreement on several key issues related to the structuring of the state, and was immediately after the deadline dissolved by Prime Minister Bhattarai.
The move to end 27 years of direct rule, is one of the key parts of the Good Friday Agreement peace accord.
He says he is committed to ratifying the Kyoto Protocol - and played a key part in drawing up the agreement in 1997.
Hale, who was sentenced Monday to 28 months in prison for mail fraud and conspiracy following a plea agreement, is the key witness for the prosecution.
Bush said he believed there was ample money within the existing agreement to fund all key priorities and that if additional money was necessary, the administration and Congress could revisit the issue next year.
For New Zealand, "There is no time frame for concluding an agreement, " Mr. Key's spokeswoman said.
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Mr Powell was a key government negotiator during the Good Friday Agreement of 1998.
The key difference this time is an unprecedented agreement between Bertarelli, chief executive of Serono S.A., the Geneva-based biotechnology company, and fellow billionaire Larry Ellison, whose Team Oracle is the so-called Challenger of Record.
As we sat down for a rest around the halfway point, perching on smooth rocks and looking out at a big bend in the Firth, Manny told me about how his mother was one of the key leaders in establishing the land claim agreement that created the park.
Suddenly the Greek deal - which was a key plank in last week's eurozone agreement - is up in the air.
But, according to the court (again, subject to change on appeal), the key points never matched so no binding legal agreement was created.
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So far it is an agreement only in principle, and key details, such as whether Samsung's car-parts business and Daewoo's overseas electronics factories are included remain open.
In a separate report the Commission also recommended opening talks with Kosovo on reaching a Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the EU - a key step towards full EU accession negotiations.
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