But on January 6, the league and the players announced they'd struck a tentative agreement after a 16-hour negotiating session.
Key U.S. policymakers have reached a tentative agreement on a bailout proposal that they expect to present to their colleagues immediately for final approval.
Jordan reached a tentative agreement on a five-year contract last week.
"There's a tentative agreement on a number of things, and we're waiting to see if it can get wrapped up, " Feinstein said in a brief interview at the Capitol.
Senators reached a tentative agreement Friday on a compromise bill largely negotiated by a handful of moderate Republicans whose votes are needed to prevent a filibuster.
To do that it's been expanding into other countries on the renewables ticket, establishing wind farms in Germany, France and the U.S. So far this year, Iberdrola has acquired Community Energy in the United States, two wind farms in Britain, and it has signed a tentative agreement to build a 1, 000 megawatt wind farm in northern China.
Global Times says North Korea's threat comes amid reports that China and the US have struck a "tentative deal" on a UN Security Council draft resolution on tougher sanctions against North Korea for its nuclear test last month.
This was a tentative, awkward piece of work, a cultural tragedy staged as comic opera.
National Hockey League owners and the union representing the players reached a tentative agreement early Sunday morning, ending a nearly four-month lockout of the players.
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Still, the chance for a contract agreement is limited by the bankruptcy time frame, by the gap between the parties and, if there were to be an agreement, by a perception among some pilots that rejecting a tentative agreement could augment the possibility of a merger with US Airways.
But a fall in the number of Americans claiming weekly unemployment benefits, pointing to a tentative recovery in the labour market, gave a mixed picture of the economy.
Chrysler now has a tentative deal with China's Chery Automobile to build a small car for North America and Western Europe.
Stanford University this week formally submitted a tentative proposal to the city of New York to build a campus for applied science research and graduate education on Roosevelt Island, with the intent that the campus would serve as a hub for innovation and economic growth.
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Under a tentative peace deal, al-Bashir agreed in November to a three-phase U.N. plan to strengthen the overstretched, 7, 000-strong African Union force in Darfur.
"Senate Democrats have just announced a tentative health care deal that doesn't appear to include a real public health insurance option, " the organizers wrote in the note.
Edison submitted a tentative request to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, technically known as a license amendment, that if approved would cap Unit 2's capacity at 70 percent, down from the now-required 100 percent.
Ian Bell and Matt Prior got them off to a tentative start as they were happy to play the ball around a slow outfield for ones and twos and protect their wickets, while failing to take advantage of the powerplays.
But in a stunning move, the Maloofs backed out of the tentative deal for a downtown arena, saying it didn't make financial sense.
Indeed, a tentative Mayweather looked vulnerable for perhaps the first time in his career, and for a moment it looked as if he might be overpowered.
The parties have reached a tentative settlement, which Mandell's attorney says involves no payment from Mandell.
But his words do provide a tentative time-frame for when the link could be broken.
Here's a tentative nod to Roach, but the bulls may yet carry the day.
The first tentative steps in a reconstruction of Jewish life in Poland have been made.
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Finance Secretary John Swinney said the the figures pointed to "a tentative recovery in consumer confidence".
In December, a tentative lease with Miller Insurance Services LLP for space in the project was shelved.
Aviation consultant Robert Mann said chances for a tentative contract agreement do not appear to be high.
We had a tentative agreement with the board of directors of APA that unfortunately did not ratify.
Secondly, the 10-minute patient slots are simply too short to establish a relationship with a tentative young person.
Signs of a tentative rotation by investors out of bonds and back into equities has further bolstered optimism.
The tentative list is a list of sites which the UK Government may consider nominating for World Heritage Status.
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