The agreement, which could be approved by a bankruptcy court Friday, is the first significant sign of progress on a compromise struck in late December by BP Amoco and a rival Russian oil concern, the Tyumen Oil Company.
The House and the Senate passed different versions of the legislation last year, and negotiators from the two chambers said they were making slow but steady progress toward a compromise.
New York's two legislative leaders said today that they had made progress toward a compromise on how to borrow about $4 billion, one of the major sticking points in the ongoing impasse over this year's state budget.
Democrats, including the chief sponsor of the bill, Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut, said they were making progress toward a compromise with Republicans on the types of identification that some new voters might be required to show at the polls.
But Chinese laws forbid the sharing of those documents, on the grounds that vaguely defined "state secrets" might surface.For a while, Sino-American negotiations seemed to be making some progress on a compromise.
Microsoft has made no progress towards a compromise with the attorneys who are trying to block a multimillion-dollar settlement of the class-action antitrust suits filed against the company, a source close to the negotiations said.
The FEC commissioners expressed optimism that the vote would be rescheduled for next week as Republican and Democratic appointees had made progress on a compromise.
First, The Times reported that the only sliver of political progress — a tortuous compromise on sharing oil revenues — was evaporating.
If no changes of ΔE(Δx) are examined while approaching to the stationary point of the network, then the step-size parameter Δ may be decreased, which enables us to monitor the updating process as it progresses setting a compromise between the desired accuracy of finding the NN's stationary point and computational complexity [10].
There is no evidence of progress at reaching a compromise.
