The meeting is not a developmental reading or industry workshop for potential investors – steps that would indicate a revival is likely – but rather a preliminary meeting to talk about the script and bat around ideas for the characters, Agnes and Michael Snow.
Israeli officials said that based on high-level contacts with their Egyptian counterparts this week, they understand that Mubarak hopes U.S. representatives would meet with such a joint delegation as a preliminary to direct talks involving Israel.
Aetna Inc., the nation's largest health insurer, is in preliminary talks to try to settle its share of a host of lawsuits that attack core marketing and operating practices of the H.M.O.
Currently, Wang is said to in preliminary talks to purchase Dick Clark Productions, producer of the Golden Globe Awards, American Music Awards and Billboard Music Awards.
Continental is now expected to press ahead with preliminary talks to create a three-way alliance — short of a full merger — with American Airlines and British Airways.
Interest for Internet shares flared for a few hours amid rumors that Excite@Home athm was in preliminary talks to sell the company to Yahoo! yhoo.
All seemed to be going according to the U.S. plan: Allow for "preliminary" talks to end the war through a broad-based "reconciliation" process, but only after beefed-up coalition forces "gained the initiative" on the battlefield.
Later that year, toymaker Hasbro Inc held preliminary talks to buy DreamWorks Animation, according to another source at the time.
According to an online report, Yahoo! is in preliminary talks to acquire Excite@Home athm for somewhere north of $17 billion in an audacious bid to gain devotees of one of the largest sites and get its hands on high-speed Internet cable lines.
Still, as Politico first reported on Monday, Senators Charles E. Schumer of New York, a Democrat, and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a Republican, have begun preliminary talks to see whether there is enough support in Congress to try to pass a comprehensive immigration overhaul in coming months.
