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The companies are in "preliminary talks" about RMC's Readymix business, a HeidelbergCement spokesman, Paul Nachtsheim, said.

Antonucci said the league had also held preliminary talks about placing teams in Dallas, Denver, San Diego and Seattle.

Lucent and Alcatel have held preliminary talks about a combination that would, in effect, be an acquisition by Alcatel.

Ohio State's president, E. Gordon Gee, indicated the same, saying there had been preliminary talks about grooming Fickell for the job.

A merger with Virgin would allow these slots to be used for more profitable long-haul flights, but preliminary talks about a deal went nowhere.

In preliminary talks about filling the spot, the White House is expected to consider Mr. Wetjen, a former aide to the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid.

One network executive said his company had preliminary talks last year about a weekly syndicated issue-oriented town-meeting-type program for Mr. Clinton.

Rose confirmed that Yahoo and Digg had preliminary talks simply about how much it would cost for the upkeep of Delicious.

It will be home to the new Dallas franchise in the XFL next spring, with some preliminary talks ongoing about hosting soccer and high school football, Rob Matwick, the Rangers' vice president of business operations, told Boomskie on Baseball on Tuesday before his club lost 5-4 thethe Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field in Phoenix.

It was reported tonight that Brawn have held preliminary talks with Michael Schumacher about a return to Formula One.

But Assembly Democrats, who control that chamber and who said they had had only preliminary talks with Mr. Cuomo about the cap, were taken by surprise and did not see the bill until Saturday, a day on which the Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, an Orthodox Jew, observes the Sabbath.