And our principals continue to meet and brief the President on what's happening, and that will continue until we do get an agreement.

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Detectives investigating the attack said the pair had been drinking with other friends throughout the day and night of 10 November and had "a brief altercation" before arranging to meet again to resolve the disagreement.

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His route ran close to those neighbours' borders, with brief hops across, for instance to meet the Polish president and prime minister, and to visit a Skoda car factory, in the Czech republic but owned by Volkswagen.

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The board didn't meet with its future CEO for several months before his brief appointment.

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The pope won't give the usual brief personal greetings to people afterward, but will meet delegations of heads of state in Vatican City later.

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The brief also notes the Defense Department has now allowed Padilla to meet with a lawyer.

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In my brief time in the political arena, I appeared several times on Meet the Press.

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