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...most cases, though, the approaches are much more subtle: bribegiver and receiver never even meet, but deal through middlemen or agents. A company wanting to do business in a country where it is not known may seek out an agent, or an agent may approach it and claim???quite rightly?to know how to land contracts. Working?often luxuriously?on the fringes of the worlds of politics and business, middlemen are the indispensable Mr. Fixits for companies operating in foreign countries. Often natives of the country, the agents are well connected and know their way around the corridors of power...
...Thing. Today even I.R.A. leaders concede that the army is "under pressure" in Belfast from the British. "It's getting to be a very risky thing to pick off a tommy," admits a leading Provisional. "In three minutes the area can be sealed off." Elsewhere in Ulster, the Provos claim???probably accurately?that they operate with little risk of discovery. Farmers regularly call on the I.R.A. for armed protection as they go out to fill in the craters in roads blown up by British explosives...
When John Van Ryn beat Hunter next day, some spectators said Hunter deserved it after taking the Bell match that way?who ever heard of a decent player claiming a default when his opponent had hurt himself? Others supported Hunter's own claim???that he had been playing for Bell's legs, that Bell could only beat these tactics by taking a rest. Beside, they said, how could Bell expect lenience after what he did to that sitter...
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