1.   Post sale talk left most farmers with broad smiles on their faces.

2.   In addition to the very public stage on which the Pitino coaching melodrama is unfolding, we have the very private backroom venue for the ongoing sale talks.

3.   John Hancock said in May that it planned to hold sale talks with Freedom executives.

4.   Montgomery is in sale talks at a time when prices paid for securities firms are skyrocketing.

5.   Oil companies declined after reports of progress in oil sale talks between Iraq and the United Nations.

6.   The bank refused to comment directly on the sale talk.

7.   The collapse of the Cablevision-Yankee sale talks would have to have been extremely acrimonious for Yankee owner George Steinbrenner to snub MSG in the next cable deal.

8.   SR Technics is in sale talks with several potential investors, said spokesman Dominik Mueller.