Word: dealing
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...possible that the nearly 4 billion people the astronauts left behind when they set off on their journeys--the people who get to look at the pictures and study the rocks and retell the tales the explorers brought home--just might have got the better part of the deal...
...says. So he finds a struggling French entrepreneur with no venture funding, no friends and a work visa about to expire, who confesses, "There's a knife at my throat. Sometimes I get really, really scared." A motherly saleswoman talks about going for "the kill" when she closes a deal. A CEO starts to unravel in the final sweaty minutes of an IPO that just might fizzle. The tension is palpable, the fear real, as Bronson chronicles "the living hell of radical uncertainty that is start-up life...
...deadlock has sent the peace deal's authors, Britain and the Republic of Ireland, back to the drawing board. Prime Minister Blair and Ireland's Taoiseach (prime minister) Bertie Ahearn will meet next week to ponder a way forward in a peace process that crashed because neither side could muster the trust to take the necessary political risks. The only smiles in Northern Ireland Thursday will be on the faces of the hard men of all stripes who prefer to let their weapons do the negotiating...
...breast shows that boldness and bravery are alive and well. Trapped in the hellish cold and ice of the region, which averages 80 degrees below zero during the current Antarctic winter, the woman, who is the doctor of the station, according to the New York Times, has had to deal with the possibility that she may have breast cancer. The Air Force jet crew, which over the weekend dropped essential medical equipment and supplies for the woman, had to fly through extreme cold, blustery and dark conditions few would ever dare to challenge. And the woman, who has requested anonymity...
...dynamic for the election," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. Encouraged by the rhetorical and political momentum they gained over gun control, Democrats are trying to force the Republicans to go through some "tough political votes" over health care, says Dickerson. Republicans would prefer not to have to deal with the HMO issue, he reports, but, aware of the political draw of the matter, they are seeking to enact a limited bill that will both pass public muster and maintain the GOP?s reputation as the party of fiscal responsibility. At the moment there does not appear to be much...