Word: backroom
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...Hauser insists that no such backroom, unethical procedures exist...
Thanks to backroom deal-making between the European Union and the Russian Federation—and despite persistent U.S. intransigence—the Kyoto Protocol on Global Climate Change finally came into force this February. Many believe that the resuscitation of the Kyoto deal is a momentous as well as joyful turning point in global climate policy...
From the days of Daley's legendary father, sometimes known as Richard the First, Chicago's national reputation as a bare-knuckle city of backroom deals by the Democratic faithful and their labor-union allies has always held a lot of truth. But Daley has professionalized the city by hiring skilled managers and burnished its business-friendly image by strengthening connections to global firms like Boeing, which relocated its headquarters to town, and to white-shoe industries like banking, financial services...
...equivalent of envisaging an electoral college in which you have no idea of who the electors are, or who they're going to choose once they're elected - or even of whom the candidates might be. In other words, it may be a month or more of backroom bargaining before we know the identity of Iraq's new government...
...safe return from Iraq of Italian aid workers Simona Pari and Simona Torretta - held hostage for three weeks in September - was another Berlusconi political coup that bore Letta's fingerprints. The effort was driven by backroom diplomacy, not the showmanship that comes so naturally to Berlusconi. Less than 24 hours before the hostages' liberation, Letta called in top opposition leaders for a confidential meeting. There was good news: the two Simonas were alive; a satellite had picked up the sound of their voices. Letta played the crackling tape to the opposition politicians. They agreed it was better to negotiate with...