Cases that have been proceeding on completely separate judicial tracks may be about to converge.
Despite Mr. Ai's absence, his plans for exhibiting his art in the West have been proceeding on schedule.
Publicly at least, Vivendi and Seagram have been proceeding on the assumption that their deal, first announced four months ago as a response to the Time Warner-America Online combination, will be approved by European regulators.
The owner, listed by the city as Tony Mamounas, had been ordered by the New York City Buildings Department to remove the addition by last month, but neighbors say that work instead has been proceeding on the property, once home to Abigail Hopper Gibbons and her husband, James, who were prominent New York City abolitionists.
Many buyers have been proceeding on the basis that they would get that extra 20% from the government, so it is likely that a number of deals will now fall through.
Due to the convection process, however, very slow and partial separation and differentiation of rocks and ices inside Callisto has been proceeding on timescales of billions of years and may be continuing to this day.
Officials in Geneva contend that they had been proceeding quietly, on a diplomatic track, to include Israel since 1995.
WPP, which owns Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide and J. Walter Thompson, is expected to announce the end of the talks, which had been proceeding off and on for four months, tomorrow morning, before the opening of the stock markets.
Peter Wittig, Germany's ambassador to the United States, who also appeared at the Atlantic Council, also noted the slowdown in the talks, saying they had been proceeding "at a rather slow pace on the expert level".
-- Timothy Egan, "The Invisible War" THE WILD SIDE Work on interspecies cloning has been proceeding for a number of years.
