"We were leaving a lot of money on the table, " says Russell Glass, vice president of products and marketing.

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Vice-chairman Peter Jackson believes the club's position in the table will help to attract a better quality of manager to Vale Park.

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And I think that, having said that, going -- we have made clear from the start that the talks being led by the Vice President about our need to reduce our deficit will allow everything to be on the table.

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But the vehicle for these negotiations is the talks led by the Vice President, and we feel that those talks have been productive, that the folks around the table in those negotiations have come to the table to do serious work, and we are optimistic that we can find common ground and produce a deficit-reduction package that Americans will support.

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