Word: bargainers
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...some Republican activists on the right, blaming Burke is an old pastime, though one that until lately they kept out of the papers. During last year's fight over health care, they blamed her for Dole's willingness to bargain over the Clinton plan long after most Republicans had turned against it. Some others around Washington suggest she was never committed to sweeping reform, but kept Dole identified with the idea to prevent Republicans from looking like diehard supporters of the existing system in the fall elections. "Sheila Burke was the Republican executioner of Hillary Clinton's health-care bill...
...Balkan peace process, a reflection of his conviction that the Europeans either lack the leadership clout or have too many conflicting interests in the former Yugoslavia to impose a settlement, and that the U.N. is too weak to do so. Can he deliver on his part of any bargain? Possibly, but he will need time to bring the Bosnian Serbs into line and convince Serbs in general that he is not selling out their cause. "Like it or not, there's nothing else out there," says an insider in Belgrade. "Nothing will happen unless the U.S. and Serbia are involved...
Questions have also been raised about the Russians' ability to fulfill their part of the bargain. The Baikonur Cosmodrome is in Kazakhstan, once part of Soviet Central Asia, now an independent country. Although Russia has signed a 20-year lease for the Cosmodrome, overall relations between the two nations have been rocky...
Governments generally refuse to bargain with terrorists because the terrorists' word cannot be counted upon. In the Unabomber's case, even if the newspapers print the document, there is no guarantee that the Unabomber will keep to his word and stop killing now, after 17 years...
...unspoken bargain that has ruled U.S.-Japanese relations for decades is breaking down. Right through the Bush Administration, U.S. Presidents viewed Japan primarily as an indispensable cold-war ally. Annoyed though they might be by the gargantuan trade deficits that in the U.S.'s view resulted largely from Japanese protectionism, they would not push any trade dispute to the breaking point. In particular, they believed the U.S. must always keep its markets open, whatever its trading partners did--partly out of free-trade principle, partly as a way to reward anticommunist allies. Japan, for its part, grew expert at offering...