The North has made conciliatory gestures toward Japan, whose financial contribution would be crucial to any eventual deal.

There is talk that Woods's eventual deal could rival the John Daly megadeal of $30 million over 10 years from Wilson.

In the electronic message, the pilots insisted that the two sides' offers did not mean an eventual deal would be somewhere in the middle.

It is an old Albany axiom that the party that cares less about getting a rapid agreement ends up getting more out of the eventual deal.

But he joined in the bipartisan optimism about an eventual deal, declining to say what proposals he would rule out.

Therefore, they said, some sort of an agreement of nonaggression might well be part of an eventual deal on weapons.

Milosevic remains a poor candidate for trial so long as we need to negotiate with him for an eventual deal for Kosovo.

The eventual deal with the unions dropped most of the contentious clauses, leaving not much to show.

Sir Patrick is scheduled to retire in 2003, and some analysts say his departure could pave the way for an eventual deal.

An eventual deal fell through, and he returned to Estrela after four years.