Twitter got in on the tweet and immediately began haggling.
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"I was fed up of haggling over fares," he recalls.
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People flash cash as they negotiate, and everyone is haggling.
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The WhatsApp messages show Pelaez haggling with the hacking victim.
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One thing lawmakers are not haggling over is funding levels.
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For Chan, haggling isn't only about getting the best deal.
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Until then, there will be weeks of haggling behind the scenes.
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The air is filled with zither music and haggling in Vietnamese.
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Officials had hoped for agreement a year ago, but haggling continued.
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The state over whose fate they're haggling, however, appears beyond salvaging.
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That meant narrow profit margins and regular haggling for each order.
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Next time, maybe even tomorrow, they'll be back, haggling as usual.
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Now, with the voting over, the haggling over top jobs begins.
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There will be no haggling with the House over Senate procedure.
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There will be no haggling with a house over Senate procedure.
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Or is the slowdown just routine haggling over dollars and cents?
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But officials have repeatedly cautioned they are still haggling over the backstop.
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They're haggling over her home repair costs following the devastating California wildfires.
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Prior to a trial, all you're doing is haggling with a prosecutor.
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The haggling comes after Yahoo's disclosure of a massive hacking in 103.
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Sticker shock Who doesn't hate haggling over the price of a car?
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Corker has established what Republicans are; now they're just haggling over price.
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The legislation followed years of haggling between Airbnb and New York officials.
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There is no distinguishable dialogue, only a cacophony of shouting and haggling.
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Sometimes this involved outright haggling, as in the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
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I wouldn't mind going in there haggling and seeing what I could find.
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Such haggling can go on after March 29th without causing any additional disruption.
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Mr Benet describes this as nothing more than haggling before the contracts' renewal.
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Expect an eventful night of results on Sunday, followed by months of haggling.
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China's Three Gorges International Corp is haggling for better terms, Nepali officials said.
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But they are still haggling over how to implement and enforce a deal.
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Here's Bloomberg (emphasis mine): Once the meeting proper got underway, the haggling continued.
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That haggling, our Rome bureau chief writes, risks further stoking anti-establishment sentiment.
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The announcement of the Cabinet had been held up by haggling over positions.
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The haggling comes as negotiators are trying to reach a deal on Tuesday.
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Tipping and haggling are awkward and unseemly practices under the best of circumstances.
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Kuwait Airways has been embroiled in political haggling over stalled privatisation plans since 2008.
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If you don't mind haggling for the best deal, maybe CarMax isn't for you.
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That's a problem, and not just because nobody enjoys haggling with the sales folks.
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But he had to keep his instinct for haggling and jolliness to a minimum.
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In any event, the election is likely to be followed by weeks of haggling.
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Industry lobbying typically intensifies as haggling over EU budget funds reaches its decisive stage.
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By haggling over hundreds of dollars, they placed United's billion dollar brand in jeopardy.
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When all the haggling was finished, the tobacco industry agreed to pay $246 billion.
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While haggling over Britain's exit continues, all those issues are up in the air.
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The size and targets are often subject to prolonged haggling among its member states.
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The haggling over disaster aid comes amid fierce debates over government funding and immigration.
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But we were haggling with these communities one by one to lay more fiber.
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If they agree to the price you offer without any haggling, you've undoubtedly overpaid.
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If you enjoy haggling and negotiating (and goofy cartoon beans) this game is for you.
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Insurer PZU and Italy's largest bank Unicredit are haggling over a price for the deal.
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One, other member states can take a tough line with Poland in the haggling ahead.
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Either way, expect plenty more haggling and last-minute changes over the next few days.
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But in India's case it has taken a decade of haggling to get this far.
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Haggling is expected, but you are not on a game show, so don't be insane.
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Congress, rived by partisan dissension, is still haggling over the terms of a rescue bill.
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" Lucy, on the other hand, dives in, sightseeing and roaming the souks, "considering and haggling.
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Patients, of course, don't know how the behind-the-scenes haggling affects what they pay.
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Haggling happens constantly in the Dominican Republic, and I would encourage travelers to embrace it.
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You wouldn't buy a car without haggling, because it's a cultural norm, Dr. Babcock said.
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An American physician spends on average three weeks of every year haggling with insurance companies.
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House Democrats, Senate Republicans and the White House are still haggling over a response package.
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The Senate will offer its own legislation, and then the haggling will begin in earnest.
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Overall, everyone is very nice about the haggling and usually there is lots of joking.
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Passage of the spending package will cap months of haggling that blew past the Oct.
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Instead of discussing reforms, lawmakers are haggling over cabinet posts, which they use to disperse spoils.
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"He's giving a good price," said a spectator, intruding into a knot of two haggling men.
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After much haggling—with the French the most stubborn holdouts—the floor was set at 72.5%.
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For the past year officials have been haggling over numbers in the middle of that range.
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My dad watches from afar, embarrassed by my haggling which he sees as crass and unladylike.
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Yet after four years of haggling, he has scored his biggest deal by simply letting go.
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The deal had previously been disclosed and ends days of haggling between Pelosi and her detractors.
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That's a lot of abstraction, but the gist is: Buyback administrators have no interest in haggling.
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They've been haggling for 14 months to improve compensation, which union leaders blame for high turnover.
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Political momentum behind health-care reform faded over February and March amid haggling over legislative details.
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Conservative and moderate Republicans, as well as House leadership, have spent weeks haggling over the details.
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He has been haggling with Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis over what he owes ever since.
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Lemme stop haggling over the rules and just rank the shirtless sports any way I please.
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"There will be no haggling with the House over Senate procedure," McConnell said earlier this month.
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At this point, all that haggling is happening between leadership in the House and the Senate.
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Take, for instance, Ms. Elkind and Ms. Murphy's haggling over the resale of the $15 textile.
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But McConnell has rejected Pelosi's request, saying Wednesday there would be no "haggling" with the House.
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And remember, haggling is not about getting the best price but about getting a fair one.
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After months of haggling OPEC members agreed to the first cut in oil production in eight years.
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Europe was made of such men, who would be shocked by today's petty haggling about customs duties.
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That idea is widely shared: haggling about a funeral can feel like a display of hard-heartedness.
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Without knowing the outcome of the elections, Republican lawmakers predict only that the haggling will be intense.
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Mueller's team and Trump's lawyers have been haggling over a potential interview with the president for months.
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The last MFF negotiations went down to the wire, taking two and a half years of haggling.
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That's a lot of time dedicated to haggling over whose multi-trillion-dollar climate plan goes furthest.
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There is haute cuisine here, and love for truffles goes all the way to the haggling part.
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Congress is broadly in favour of the force, although the Senate and House are haggling over details.
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CreditCreditDado Galdieri for The New York Times RIO DE JANEIRO — Even in death the haggling went on.
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Retailers are closely watching the haggling between Mr. Trump and Congress over lowering the corporate tax rate.
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"There will be no haggling with the House over Senate procedure," McConnell said on the chamber floor.
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By then, Bayonne had already spent nearly a year haggling with some of K.K.R.'s top negotiators.
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The day was marked by a stream of recesses and haggling among lawmakers, according to multiple reports.
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With the House and Senate haggling over the bill, state officials are increasingly in a difficult spot.
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This "phase one" deal has been in the works since October, with both sides haggling over details.
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IN THE wee hours of December 7th 2013, after weeks of haggling, exhausted trade representatives stood to applaud.
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"Vintage had little choice and needed to pay a price that left no room for haggling," Spieckerman said.
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People filled the market, talking, haggling at stalls, pulling battered carts loaded with animals and cargo for sale.
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It is more elegant than the other two main forms of setting a fee: haggling and menu pricing.
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And salaries are largely non-negotiable, to avoid paying people for their haggling skills instead of their performance.
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This Ramadan, he spends hours haggling in the market, trying to exchange his dwindling savings for canned goods.
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Two complete, high-value auctions will help reduce confusion and haggling over spectrum pricing between the various parties.
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Uber operates in several African countries, drawing customers by offering low prices and cutting out haggling over fares.
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I was told I was "worse than a Berber woman" many times due to my tough haggling skills.
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They crossed the street diagonally, dodging skateboarders filming videos and shoppers haggling with street vendors selling overstock produce.
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For all its architectural grandeur, it is really a noisy souk, a forum for gossip, ideas and haggling.
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I practiced shopping, confidently demanding what I needed and even succeeding a few times at haggling the prices down.
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Then, according to their accounts, he begins haggling over every detail and insists on paying less than he promised.
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All that was left was the haggling, over cabinet posts and policies, before Mr Netanyahu announced his new government.
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He also asked citizens for forgiveness for the three months of haggling over the future role of Mr. Mas.
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Finding and navigating a local market can be unrealistic for new vegans, though, especially if you're bad at haggling.
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The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) released the guidelines after years of haggling over the rules.
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Instead of haggling with a store clerk for a pair of generic eyeglasses, take your prescription eyewear shopping online.
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But the vote looks likely to trigger weeks of haggling between different parties to try to form a government.
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But Uber shareholders are haggling with the Japanese conglomerate over the price at which those shares would be sold.
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Striking a new deal with the EU will also be haggling with a bloc that has been increasingly protectionist.
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When the previous government's initial draft of last year's budget was rejected by Brussels, it led to months of haggling.
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Buyers would contact him, and they would be asked to deposit a sum into a bank account after much haggling.
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That makes haggling over pay even more difficult for women, Bhargava says, who often feel less comfortable demanding higher salaries.
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Congressional haggling over the USMCA means that there is still uncertainty about whether and when it will come into force.
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The officers varied as much as the itineraries, and I imagined them haggling over the rotation of these coveted slots.
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Solvency is the definition of kicking the can, where we are only haggling about how far the can is kicked.
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After some haggling, she wrote, Bernstein made the "incredibly generous gesture" of giving up a sliver of his royalty share.
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Having reached an accommodation that gave Marvel creative input in Spider-Man, the companies reportedly began haggling over the deal.
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FOR MONTHS America and the Taliban had been haggling over an agreement to end their 18-year war in Afghanistan.
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That will lead to some tariff cuts on Chinese imports, and to a presidential trip to Beijing for further haggling.
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Weeks away from the deadline for the city budget, the City Council and the mayor are haggling over that point.
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Everyone involved wants an agreement, but those same lawmakers and administration officials are still haggling over issues -- large and small.
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Instead of haggling over government funding, the fight will turn to a debate over presidential power and possible executive overreach.
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More U.S. tariffs are looming within weeks and Beijing and Washington are still haggling over a first phase trade deal.
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After months of haggling, Republicans expressed confidence they had finally crafted a bill that will get the 216 votes necessary.
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Haggling is a great opportunity to interact and engage with the local community and is a cultural experience in itself.
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" Sanders's answer suggested that he had no interest in haggling over restrictions and exceptions: "I am very strongly pro-choice.
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The value of the freehold is determined by haggling between solicitors representing both the freehold owner and the leasehold tenants.
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So while companies may haggling over the timing, the decision to repurchase will have to be made at some point soon.
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The bank is still haggling over the staffing of those seats, a person with knowledge of the matter said on Friday.
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Even if Mr Hariri wanted to fire his finance minister, doing so would lead to weeks of haggling over a replacement.
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The Internet issue is one of several matters that the two sides still are haggling over as part of the talks.
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McConnell meanwhile has a working group of 13 Senators — all men — steadily and surreptitiously haggling to reach a consensus on Obamacare.
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In most cases, the sheer hassle of haggling would render this unrealistic, a problem that Coase was the first to admit.
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Haggling with card companies is more important because debt balances are creeping up to levels not seen since the financial crisis.
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We'd have to haggle for it, and our success rate at haggling was not a point of pride in the family.
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Banks have been discussing defensive mergers for months but haggling over top jobs and the location of headquarters has hindered deals.
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It may take weeks of haggling to sort out who will lead the next government, and who will be in it.
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It's my first time haggling and realize afterwards I paid way to much but I've learned my lesson for next time.
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However, after some reading, I learned they traditionally start very high with the expectation you will do a lot of haggling.
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Both sides are still haggling over a common agenda that they hope will dominate Italian politics for the next five years.
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"There will be no haggling with the House over Senate procedure," Mr. McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said on the Senate floor.
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Months of haggling left two main hardline groups and one conservative coalition, with some candidates backed by more than one group.
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At times, he has privately expressed bemusement at what he calls Mr. Mnuchin's naïveté when it comes to haggling with Congress.
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There is no haggling involved, and the sale price is usually about $1,000 below what you would pay outside the program.
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Such haggling is uncommon under single-payer systems like Medicare (though it is sometimes employed by private insurers that supplement Medicare).
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Instead, the G.O.P.'s various factions are now haggling over just how many millions of Americans they are willing to harm.
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The big holdout — Elliott Management — is still haggling, and the Argentine Congress and an American judge would have to bless any bargain.
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After two-and-a-half years of haggling with Britain over Brexit, Juncker cautioned that this was the last chance for Britain.
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We therefore set to haggling over language in the contract setting out precisely how each of us should do our respective jobs.
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As The Economist went to press, Mexican and American delegations were still haggling furiously, chiefly over new rules covering trade in cars.
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The oldest form of dynamic pricing was practised in ancient bazaars, where merchants would size up their customers before the haggling began.
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If Ryan's comments were an honest assessment of the Republicans' strategy, they would not be haggling over the length of the delay.
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Arguments that the absence of fully empowered refs slows the game down and allows boring haggling between players are wrong and shortsighted.
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After haggling over rerouted flights and standby lists, I step away from the gate agents and find out a tragedy has occurred.
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After years of fruitless haggling over building in San Jose, they have now targeted 2023 for a new home somewhere in Oakland.
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A proposed sale to Iran, for example, was delayed multiple times as Israel and the United States objected and diplomatic haggling ensued.
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And in Thailand, a rail project important to a new trade route from southern China has been delayed by haggling over costs.
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Officials from the United States Embassy in Bangkok stepped in and secured her release after haggling with the Thai authorities, she said.
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American officials have hinted that President Trump could pause the tariffs as the U.S. and China continue haggling over a trade deal.
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Other expenses Gachman says are worth haggling over include mortgage rates, laptop repairs, gym memberships, hotel rooms, medical bills and late fees.
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Uber's board has been haggling with the Japanese conglomerate over the price at which the ride-hailing company will sell its shares.
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Corker called the BCRA is something akin to a "bazaar," a round of haggling that is unlikely to develop into good policy.
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A typical auto ride involves considerable haggling over the right fare and route, and persuading the driver to head to a particular destination.
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National haggling over who gets the job will be inextricably linked to other vacancies, such as the next president of the European Commission.
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After pooling their money and haggling with the vendors, they come back with a Gameboy for Five and a construction mask for Major.
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Mrs May must not waste the two-year timetable haggling over a few billion, when trade worth vastly more hangs in the balance.
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We had the Nigerian grocer by our old church, the days spent haggling with fishmongers in the Chinese food court by Beltway 8.
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Earlier in the haggling between Di Maio and Salvini to cobble together a governing coalition, each man boasted the right to be premier.
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Though the manager is usually involved in choosing the target, the haggling is often done by a "director of football" or senior executive.
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Officials from both sides reached agreement early on Tuesday on a package of bailout-mandated reforms, ending six months of staff-level haggling.
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The company is still haggling with the Pentagon over its next jet contract, but sales have taken off in Britain, Israel and Turkey.
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The spectacle of the U.S. haggling over this is deeply troubling, and creates a terrible precedent for future negotiations with the Cuban government.
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So between Rome and Boston, where the club's American owners do business, the haggling over an extension for one final Totti season continues.
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"If people really look forward to going to a dealership and haggling" then the website, home delivery, and vending machines aren't for them.
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When the deal became final on Monday, the price was slightly lower than that announced in June, suggesting some genuine haggling went on.
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Just one more, he said, and after haggling over what he meant by one more — one more search, no matter how many hits?
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Lawmakers were haggling this week over figures well below Trump's demand for $5.7 billion in funding for a wall on the Mexican border.
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With Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress still haggling over the overall level of spending for the fiscal year that began last Oct.
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After two-and-a-half years of haggling since the 2016 Brexit referendum, Juncker cautioned that this was the last chance for Britain.
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Democrats and Republicans are haggling over the terms of the trial, with Democrats pushing for new witnesses to be heard and Republicans resisting.
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The various political forces have been haggling over the spoils and are still far from deciding on the makeup of the new government.
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Republicans are still haggling over the rules resolution, which is not expected to be unveiled until after articles are received in the Senate.
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In Congress, lawmakers are still haggling over the top-line spending numbers for fiscal 2018, though leadership has said a deal is close.
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But many specifics of the plan remain unknown and haggling over them could prove to be an obstacle to passing it through Congress.
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Instead of haggling over tenths of a percentage point, the commission should enter negotiations over next year's budget aiming for a more ambitious agreement.
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The haggling over finances with Vivian became heated and at one point boiled over regarding his purchase of a new tour bus for $9,600.
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When haggling over a skyscraper, it really is possible to abandon a bad deal: there is always another building to buy down the road.
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You might feel uncomfortable with the idea of haggling over a doctor's bill, but paying it off in full won't exactly be thrilling, either.
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She likened the process to haggling a great price for a sofa, only to face terrible service when it comes to shipping the item.
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Top U.S. and Chinese trade negotiators were haggling on Thursday over the details of a set of agreements aimed at ending their trade war.
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I urge my colleagues to imagine what we can do with those three weeks of time that won't be spent haggling with insurance companies.
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Swedish elections are often followed by haggling among the parties, but deals are traditionally struck relatively quickly, with prospective prime ministers winning confidence votes.
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No matter what you're negotiating — a raise, the price of a new car or a business deal — there's going to be some haggling involved.
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After all the years spent haggling together in small rooms, the news of the Texans' departure reached the other remaining members via news release.
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"The time has come for Fidesz to stop the humiliating haggling with the European People's Party," the paper said in an editorial on Thursday.
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Senior sources from both parties on Capitol Hill tell me they expect they'll get the deal done — though there's plenty of last minute haggling.
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Senior Trump administration officials have spent the weekend holed up with their Mexican counterparts, haggling over the final details of a new NAFTA deal.
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Mr. Blumberg recorded his raw conversations with his wife, his awkward haggling over equity with his new partner and his employees' complaints of burnout.
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Ms Georgieva's stature and experience may explain the absence of challengers, which ensured that Europe retained the position despite fraught haggling over the nomination.
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Many of them are concluding that Mexico could have more to lose from years of haggling and economic uncertainty than from simply opting out.
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Atlantia, 33%-owned by the sweater-to-infrastructure dynasty, is haggling with the government over compensation for the collapse of a bridge in 2018.
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Lighthizer, who spent much of his summer and fall haggling with Democrats over labor, the environment and intellectual property, acknowledged as much to CBS.
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Heading into this round of haggling, both sides committed to digging in, making concessions and arriving at a deal that could pass both chambers.
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You should always try to get a fair price, but never forget the person you're haggling with is just doing his or her job.
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After months of political haggling and legal debate, Canada became the first Group of Seven country to OK recreational use of pot on Oct. 17.
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Outside the home, a girl "haggling in the market" or "looking adults in the eye" would come as a shock for some people, she adds.
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Still, this is great news for individuals who would prefer to buy a car online in order to avoid the hassle of haggling and bargaining.
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Whatever the outcome, Catalonia will see a fragmented parliament in which forming a government will take weeks of haggling and possibly require yet another election.
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The deal was cut after much haggling by European Council President Donald Tusk and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu during talks in Brussels on Friday.
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House Republicans are haggling over the details of legislation to repeal and replace ObamaCare as President Trump reaches his 100th day in office this Saturday.
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Lawmakers are already haggling over tax rates, revenue collection, and license enforcement, among other pesky details that have derailed legalization efforts in states like Vermont.
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They are haggling over everything from the details of the baseball game to which regulatory changes and business deals can be announced during the visit.
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According to Nepali officials, work had yet to begin as the Chinese company was haggling with the government for better terms on construction and tariffs.
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The colorful lanes are lined with vendors haggling with tourists over locally-made wares; shops are packed with souvenirs ranging from magnets to Berber carpets.
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Access to international markets is difficult, bank loans are nonexistent, and trips outside Sanaa can require hours of haggling with petty bureaucrats and local tribes.
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A grand bargain privacy bill is said to be in the works, with a handful of lawmakers from both parties haggling privately over the details.
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The ongoing "Succession" world tour makes a stop this week at yet another lavish country estate, for two days of earnest haggling and phony congeniality.
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Another couple weeks of haggling, for naught if history is any guide, could certainly shift these views, as could another outburst from President Donald Trump.
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With the two sides still haggling, the administration is set to impose 15% tariffs on an additional $160 billion of Chinese imports beginning Dec. 15.
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After an hour of hard haggling, my guide bargained the Bumba authorities down from $19203 to $20 to let me walk freely through the town.
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But while political sentiment has fled the center ground, there is a growing sense of exhaustion among many voters about Parliament's endless haggling over Brexit.
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Trump had already announced the broad contours of the "phase one" deal in October, and the two sides have been haggling over specifics since then.
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British election: With the future of the country's status in Europe undecided after years of haggling, today's voting comes at a moment of deep divisions.
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But officials have repeatedly cautioned they are still haggling over the fate of the land border between British-ruled Northern Ireland and EU member Ireland.
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The evening before, top officials from his administration were still haggling to try and reach an agreement, despite indications of intransigence from the North Koreans.
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The North Koreans had also secretly sawed several inches off the American delegate's chair so their negotiator could look down on him during the haggling.
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Nearby, Hussein al Jebri guides a gleaming silver 4x4 through a growing crowd of khat buyers haggling with salesmen who dispense their drugs from elevated stalls.
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Paul's strategy, outlined on Twitter by his spokesman, will escalate a standoff between the two men on the Senate floor after much behind-the-scenes haggling.
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The haggling over final details just serves as a reminder that HBO's flagship drama is going to ride off into the sunset sooner rather than later.
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One student in a program I led spent almost all her nonscheduled hours pounding the pavement of Southeast Asia haggling over $2 T-shirts and trinkets.
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Uber began operating in Kenya in early 2015, making inroads into the Nairobi market by offering lower prices and cutting out haggling that often infuriates customers.
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Uber operates in several African countries, including Kenya where it launched in early 2015, drawing customers by offering lower prices and cutting out haggling over fares.
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Meanwhile, haggling for seats at the political high table goes on unchecked, in scenes that have played out for decades in India's rough-and-tumble elections.
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Asking to meet up earlier in the night at a location closer to home is common when haggling out the details of a date on Tinder.
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Hyundai is launching a new website called "Click to Buy" in the UK, where customers can purchase its cars directly with fixed pricing and no haggling.
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His itinerary includes Mount Kilimanjaro, Victoria Falls and a safari in the Serengeti, and he spends a fair amount of time haggling with guides and drivers.
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But after much haggling with the authorities, delayed further by the turmoil of the global financial crisis, Mr. Hunt won a five-year lease in 2014.
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It also offers a window into how the administration hopes to change America's position in the Middle East, emphasizing hard power and haggling over traditional diplomacy.
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What follows is an update to some of the standout examples of shouting and agita as we once again look back at a year in haggling.
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The internal Republican haggling comes after McConnell announced that he has the votes to sideline Democrats and pass the rules for the trial with only Republicans.
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Under intense pressure from European leaders, Mr. Trump's aides were haggling over the language of a communiqué on climate change that they hoped to release Saturday.
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The ultimate outcome depends on a lot of things that are really hard to predict, ranging from minor party vote share to post-election parliamentary haggling.
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Vang's mother, accustomed to chatting and haggling over prices in markets in Laos, found no one to practice her English on in American stores, she said.
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"But the benefits of them coming far outweigh the risk of haggling with them and having them go to Corpus Christi or Houston, or even Lafayette."
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Mr. Spaulding says haggling with insurance companies, finding contractors and dealing with the permitting process to rebuild their homes can be overwhelming, especially for older people.
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ESMA Chairman Steven Maijoor has told Reuters that a one-year delay may not be enough if EU states and lawmakers begin haggling over remaining implementation measures.
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After weeks of stasis and then haggling, only in a debate starting on July 22nd will Mr Sánchez seek the approval of parliament to form a government.
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The Lebanese politician is expected to discuss with bin Salman his efforts to form a new government back home, which are at an impasse amid political haggling.
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But budgetary haggling between congressional lawmakers (who live in districts that support NASA's missions) and advocacy from NASA leaders — almost certainly kept NASA's carbon observing programs alive.
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But after years and years of haggling between official and semi-official envoys, it has become clear that the concessions sought by North Korea go too far.
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Haggling is customary and, once a deal is struck, a second negotiation takes place for "luck money", a sum given back to the buyer for good fortune.
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It's a change that Neveau attributes to the "frictionless" model of ride-hailing apps, which are consistent and free busy travelers from inconveniences like receipts and haggling.
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Stability certainly beats chaos or months of coalition haggling, the markets seemed to say, but if stability means "more of the same", we are not so sure.
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Even if haggling is OK in the country that you're traveling to, do you really need to pay fifty cents for that tea instead of a dollar?
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That deadline is imminent, but Republicans in the House and Democrats in the administration are still haggling over the terms of a bill to rescue Puerto Rico.
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Two of the most enduring, and sensitive, American alliances of the past half-century have now devolved into haggling over "cost sharing," New York–mob-protection-style.
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It is a shame that posturing and haggling over "rights" among eminent scientists and academic institutions have torn apart the precious wholeness of H.M.'s life story.
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And now instead of discussing meaningful ways the Chinese economy will open to US businesses, trade negotiators are reportedly haggling over how many soybeans China will buy.
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Shop at Bazaars and Markets The city's bazaars and markets sell high-quality, unique goods, and haggling to get the lowest prices is the way to go.
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He said trading in your car is an easier process, too, and can take a lot of the frazzled nerves (and haggling) out of the entire transaction.
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Negotiators are still haggling over several key details, including language that would make sure vaccines are affordable for all populations, according to people familiar with the talks.
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But it collapsed after months of haggling, with Republicans insisting it must be accompanied by stricter immigration measures and Democrats split on agreeing to any such compromise.
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By contrast, Schmitt argued, the haggling and intrigues of mere parliamentary democracy were a "depoliticized" shadow of true politics, which always involved the possibility of actual killing.
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But even a vote on that agreement was held up by haggling between Likud and Blue and White and was unlikely to be decided until Thursday morning.
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That will necessitate days and weeks of back-room haggling and horse trading to come up with a coalition government that can win confidence votes in Parliament.
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For Beale, and later his partner Mendel Cooper, this haggling oversight over words was a corruption of the game, and ENABLE's purpose was to purge that taint.
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"A complete approach was adopted," French President Emmanuel Macron told reporters after a night of haggling to address vehement demands from Italy&aposs new anti-migrant populist government.
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But after a week of haggling following her election debacle she has decided to call the DUP's bluff, going ahead without a formal agreement with the Irish party.
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"How sustainable this (unity) will be remains to be seen," he said referring to months of tough haggling between Prachanda and Oli for positions in the new party.
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Ferries float along the Chao Phraya River, tuk-tuks dart through traffic on chronically congested streets, and markets are jam-packed with vendors and customers haggling over handicrafts.
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Sources have said PZU, Poland's biggest insurer, is in talks with UniCredit over a possible deal but according to news reports the two sides are haggling over price.
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The cash, said to amount to £35m ($45m) now, has languished in London, with only lawyers profiting from the interminable haggling between India, Pakistan and the nizam's heirs.
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Months of haggling and chatter have stripped away their aura of novelty; they became just two more parties, as entangled as any in the poker game of politics.
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After two days of haggling, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Drain set a Wednesday deadline to complete the bankruptcy auction for the 126-year-old retailer, the people said.
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The result is that the new tariffs look more like a negotiating tactic — less the beginning of a war, more the beginning of a new round of haggling.
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Obamacare, by placating the insurance industry, was a quintessential compromise — as was the haggling after the 2008 financial crisis that kept even the most notorious bankers from jail.
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Also, negotiators are still haggling over how to structure a pot of money for states -- known as state stabilization funds -- to dip into as their fiscal situations worsen.
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Lawmakers have been haggling over a massive stimulus package with members of the administration, but Trump has also sought out ways to mitigate economic concerns on his own.
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Negotiators in Congress are hoping to unveil a funding deal soon, but as of early Tuesday evening, lawmakers and top staff were haggling over the final sticking points.
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America and Poland are now haggling over a seventh site for another American armoured brigade combat team, a unit that can include over 100 tanks and armoured vehicles.
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You might even try haggling this upgrade into your lease — save yourself some work and ask your landlord if the toilet can be replaced before you move in.
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In addition to new barrier funding, lawmakers are still haggling over Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) beds and the president's ability to shift military money toward the border.
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She opened the Associated Press's bureau in Pyongyang in 2012 after extensive haggling with the government, spending a total of three years on the ground in the country.
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Mr Barnier has tried to avoid this by suggesting it is possible to agree to some broad principles for a settlement and leave the exact amounts for later haggling.
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Casper won over many shoppers by getting rid of the worst bits of the bed-buying process, including choosing among dozens of similar products and haggling with pushy salesmen.
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Personal rivalries and competing regional loyalties have hampered moves to merge, with banks haggling more about the location of headquarters and the distribution of board seats than financial details.
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ROME (Reuters) - After weeks of internal haggling, the Italian government on Monday presented its 22021 budget to parliament, where it must be approved by the end of the year.
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Indian lenders recover just 25% of their money from delinquent borrowers on average, and only after four years of haggling, compared with 80% in America in half the time.
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This has proven (at least from what I've seen) to be a largely speculative endeavor, one that frequently devolves into haggling over what the precise definition of populism is.
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The legislation caps off months of behind-the-scenes negotiations and public haggling as Republicans sought to enact major policy changes that the party has been seeking for years.
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The records have come despite what many have categorized as decent-at-best trade developments between the U.S. and China, with both nations still haggling over a preliminary agreement.
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The deal marked the beginning of Mr. Trump's foray into the Manhattan property market, and Mr. Koskinen recalled haggling with him for months over the details of the transaction.
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At first it looks like Emily, in Stars Hollow for the day, will be completely won over by the town's quirky charm — she loves haggling over antiques with Mrs.
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The haggling over funding comes as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday announced the first case of coronavirus in the United States with an "unknown" origin.
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Mr. O'Brien floated in the Dead Sea, engaged in some terrible haggling with street vendors and delivered a minute-long history of the area that covered thousands of years.
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It retains much of the same analog agony as before: the haggling, the hours at the dealership, the gnawing worry of the fees, charges and rates behind the transaction.
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He told Speaker Nancy Pelosi that there will be "no haggling" on the terms of the trial and that the Senate will not cede its authority over the proceedings.
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Jose Baez, Demos' lawyer, contended prosecutors in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis overreached in seeking to prosecute the traders over what he called typical price haggling practices.
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The current dispute, which also initially involved Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, has received none of the attention of Trump's trade war with China or his haggling with North American neighbors.
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Analysts said sterling's short-term performance would depend on the haggling between Brussels and London, with a substantial move higher or lower dependent on whether a transition deal is secured.
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A web interface for all of the above, which will include an online store with pared-down, fixed pricing tiers that eliminate the haggling involved in the typical car purchase.
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HAGGLING WITH THE AIRLINE In December, my family and I checked some bags on a domestic Delta Air Lines flight and did not get them back until 30 hours later.
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It was resolved, as most European crises have been, through back-room haggling and an elaborate compromise ensuring that France would retain its national decision-making prerogatives on major issues.
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Nobody's talked yet about demanding taxpayer subsidies for any new arena projects, but when two sides start haggling, it's not long before they start targeting the guy behind the tree.
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They warn Trump's taste for a showy moment and apparent lack of patience with the sort of detailed drawn-out haggling any lasting deal will require could complicate Biegun's task.
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I picked up a shirt for 250 rupees and, after a bit of haggling over the initial ask of 1,000, walked away with a pair of jeans for 600 rupees.
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They speak of nighttime confusion and hectic evacuation, the strange places they've been staying since, long hours on the phone haggling with insurance companies, and, more existentially, their next move.
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There are many blogs that talk about how they were harassed, followed by people on the streets, that the haggling was aggressive but we didn't find that was the case.
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This week's travel diary: A 22-year-old student goes to Spain and Morocco with her boyfriend to flex her haggling skills and try the best dessert she's ever had.
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That number would be the $1.6 billion the White House requested, but haggling over the type of structure -- and where the structure could be placed -- has slowed the talks down.
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The plan announced Friday, after weeks of back-room haggling, mostly skirts any streamlining of bureaucratic redundancies or ways to better share intelligence across agencies and regions divided by linguistic rivalries.
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Sewing wants to reduce the size of the bank's nine-member management board and the bank is still haggling over this, a person with knowledge of the matter said on Friday.
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But while Mother Courage is haggling with the sergeant over the price of a belt buckle, the recruiter, playing on Eilif's naïveté and ego, draws him away before she can intervene.
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Mr. Rowland had lawyers on his staff, but, like those in all governor's offices, they were far more familiar with legislative haggling than with inquiries that could lead to prison terms.
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Big banks including JPMorgan Chase & Co and Bank of America Corp have been haggling over the roll-out of their Zelle app, expected to launch in the first half of 2017.
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In The Wall Street Journal, I became the face of haggling over scholarships, which was immensely preferable to the time a friend found me hawking some questionable student loan repayment services.
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Oracle said 'too bad just pay up,'" said the owner, adding that, "after about six months of haggling, I told them I would see them in court and they backed down.
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But ambiguous control rights have made long delays inevitable at ground zero, as well as at every development project that needs to go through years of community review and political haggling.
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Running since 1910, Gothenburg's traditional fish auction at Fiskhamnen is the largest in Sweden and is packed with fishmongers haggling and bidding over the Big Five as well as other seafood.
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There was no small measure of haggling with insurance adjusters during the process, but nine months after the storm, Ms. Kait and her family moved back into a fully restored house.
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Congress is broadly in favour of the force, although the Senate and House are haggling over details as they reconcile their respective versions of the National Defense Authorisation Act for 2020.
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House and Senate spending panels will immediately start haggling over how to divvy up the topline numbers among federal departments, programs and priorities — including funding for President Donald Trump's border wall.
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The Obama-era rules are the result of a haggling process between multiple automakers and agencies back in 2009, just after the administration bailed out car companies during the financial crisis.
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That touched off a behind-the-scenes round of haggling in which lawmakers had to reconcile the House bill with a far less confrontational version passed in the Republican-controlled Senate.
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The agreement marks a breakthrough in negotiations to fund the government and comes after days of behind-the-scenes haggling between Senate Republicans and House Democrats in search of a deal.
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The drawn-out coalition haggling, resulting in Wednesday's deal, has turned many voters off the SPD and the conservative bloc of Merkel's Christian Democrats and their Bavarian sister party, the CSU.
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Politicians are haggling over which countries will get which prize appointments, a messy process that analysts and investors fear may not produce a central bank leader who possesses Mr. Draghi's skills.
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Yet political and U.N. leaders have been struggling to inject urgency into two weeks of haggling on how to move on from fossil fuels to give practical effect to the Paris accord.
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KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Turkmen and Arab shoppers stroll through an open-air food market in an ethnically mixed area of Kirkuk, haggling over the price of tomatoes and gossiping about their neighbors.
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As this column has noted before, a great deal of haggling by national carriers, telecoms firms, equipment makers and standards bodies remains to be done before 5G can become a practical reality.
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After seven years of haggling, European negotiators dream of European toys and electrical products being sold straight to Canadians, without having to go through a second round of health and safety checks.
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People in other locations should still be paid fairly and respectfully for their services; you don't want to be That American and insult a merchant by haggling endlessly over a reasonable price.
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They say personal rivalries and competing regional loyalties play a crucial role in the negotiations, with haggling about the location of headquarters and the distribution of board seats often overshadowing financial details.
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After a long night of haggling, the promise of breakfast was turned into one of lunch—and the odds on an agreement by the end of the day looked at best even.
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U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power said the weeks of haggling over the wording of the resolution on MINURSO's extension, one of the council's most heated annual battles, was even more difficult this time.
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For months, lawmakers have been haggling over the disaster aid bill in response to hurricanes in the southeastern United States, severe flooding in the Midwest, devastating wildfires in California and other events.
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While Clinton stayed largely removed from the haggling over access; her top aides at the State Department had extensive communications that intersected with Clinton Foundation business or the personal interests of donors.
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Yet the result, diplomats agree, is utterly unpredictable; months of horse-trading on issues unrelated to healthcare will end up in hours of haggling between secret ballots in Brussels on Monday night.
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When you have to accommodate someone with a chronic illness, do not act like you're being put out—no groaning, moaning, or haggling with someone who is asking for accessibility, please. 56.
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Ministers and negotiators are haggling over final details of the deal after the Polish presidency of the talks released drafts of the various components late on Thursday night and early on Friday.
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He made it an article of faith that no product would ever be counterfeit and no price tag would ever be negotiable—a novel concept in China, where haggling is the norm.
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Essentially, EA and its players are currently haggling over how to tweak the knobs that make our brains release dopamine when a virtual crate unlocks, and EA has been open and responsive.
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A federal judge in Baton Rouge, La., ruled in Ms. Montagnes's favor in 2013, but lawyers for the state and the prisoners are still haggling over fixes after an appeals court's ruling.
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Markets will pay close attention because officials representing about half of the world's oil output will be meeting under the same roof and haggling in the luxurious hotels of the Austrian capital.
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Imagine a treasure-filled souk of exquisitely crafted objects and textiles in which you know everything to be authentic, the best of its kind, but with prices clearly marked, so no haggling.
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But when I brought that up while haggling for a raise, my editors scoffed and compared me — accurately, I admit — to a middle linebacker: A lot of plays just came my way.
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Trump, they believed, could project an air of a commanding incumbent president, haggling deals and being feted on red carpets by foreign leaders as his potential Democratic rivals squabble among themselves back home.
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Although many dream of inserting common sense and fairness to the tax code, that has been hard because so many features are the product of lobbying, haggling and splitting the difference in Congress.
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After months of haggling with the European Commission over the division of responsibilities, the ESM will get some monitoring duties for euro zone economies focused on debt sustainability, market access and borrowing costs.
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Trump, the Republican-controlled Senate and moderate Democrats insisted on finishing the emergency aid bill as soon as possible, without further haggling over demands for greater migrant safeguards and reduced immigration enforcement spending.
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Sam's chosen grid designs are challenging (usually 68s like this one) without being too constricting, so we steer clear of most haggling over fill and worry that the fill is not clean enough.
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He spent more than an hour haggling with a rental car company, then fought heavy traffic en route to Cincinnati from his hometown of Nashville, where he spent the off day on Monday.
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BOARD REVAMP Sewing wants to reduce the size of the bank's nine-member management board and the bank is still haggling over this, a person with knowledge of the matter said on Friday.
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An etiquette leaflet issued by the local tourism board - which told Arab tourists to stop haggling over prices, cooking in their rooms and dumping litter - caused controversy in the media two years ago.
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That person is more concerned with tax rates, materials costs, health-care costs for employees, the availability of workers and the endless haggling with federal and local authorities over safety and labor rules.
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Some earners complain about the way rating systems favor the judgment of customers (Seth F. told me that it is hard to challenge a poor rating) and can be leveraged for haggling purposes.
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Located near the Jaffa hotel in the ancient district of the same name, Rezort is for shoppers looking for the cultural experience of a "shuk" (a traditional Israeli market) without the traditional haggling.
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With few leaders willing to publicly push back against Mr. Trump's aggressive haggling over military spending, observers were left to study his body language, as well as that of his allies and aides.
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It was not quite that the games were an afterthought, but there was certainly a sense that they were an inconvenience, a distraction from the day's main business of haggling and horse trading.
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But the curtain lifted for fans, too: Now we know the show is less the product of a grand creative plan and more a matter of production schedules, haggling screenwriters and celebrity influence.
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Information such as haggling prices might seem not that horrible at first, but that lets one know he'll try to push boundaries along with how far and what boundary he'll try to push.
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He participated in marathon haggling sessions with some of the most battle-hardened figures of the 20th century, including Zhou Enlai, Leonid Brezhnev, Anwar Sadat, Yitzhak Rabin, Hafez al-Assad and Ian Smith.
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Even if that new team finally gets into place, the long haggling and the divisive preamble to her next government have made it clear that the chancellor will be in a weakened position.
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While the haggling over the calculations continues, it is hard to predict or quantify how painful the cuts will be for seniors compared with children and adults who are poor or have disabilities.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Wednesday there would be no haggling with the Democratic-led House of Representatives over the rules for U.S. President Donald Trump's impeachment trial.
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In the last four decades, dozens of countries around the world have gradually eased trade tariffs on each other through years of haggling over how much to tax thousands of individual product types.
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After haggling all night, leaders on Friday struck a deal on migration which managed to satisfy Italy's new government while giving German Chancellor Angela Merkel something that may placate her conservative Bavarian allies.
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Al-Hol, Syria (CNN)The market at al-Hol camp is a sea of unidentifiable figures clad in black, clutching their children's grubby hands as they drag them past those haggling their wares.
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Sure enough when we arrive, our driver announces it 30 euro so we just pay instead of haggling over a few euro especially since he stopped for us when he didn't have to ($35).
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This is the place you come to figure out how your next gadget will get made, haggling with vendors who act as a front office for component suppliers and manufacturing facilities spread across China.
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Powell told lawmakers that there had been no "haggling" or negotiations with Morgan Stanley over its stress tests results and capital plan, and added that the Fed was committed to the stress testing process.
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For months, lawmakers have been haggling behind the scenes over the disaster aid bill in response to hurricanes in the southeastern U.S., severe flooding in the Midwest, devastating wildfires in California and other events.
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We all know the pain of security deposits and haggling with moving companies, but there's no greater sense of freedom than stepping foot in an apartment that's really, truly yours for the first time.
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American and Chinese officials negotiating a trade deal have resolved most of the outstanding issues but are still haggling over how to implement and enforce such an agreement, the Financial Times reported late Tuesday.
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On the contrary, the show presents an endless stream of pundits and politicians — including, via clever editing, President Obama — warning of a recession-provoking crisis and haggling over bailout money for the afflicted conglomerate.
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"The scavenger who is desperate and haggling for portions and trying to survive [in Force Awakens] — those special skills and that special experience ends up being something that is essential to saving the galaxy."
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The European Union wants to base new fishing quotas around Britain on existing ones, and make them of long duration, rather than haggling annually as the European Union does with Norway over fishing rights.
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Federal lawmakers are haggling over a massive fiscal stimulus bill, which failed a key procedural Senate vote on Sunday after the chamber's Democrats warned the measure did not do enough to help impacted workers.
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On her mountain-view terrace, he steeped fresh mint tea, kissed his shy grandson and shared the unwritten rule that everything is negotiable in Morocco, that bartering is fun and not haggling shows weakness.
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The bigger haggling point is whether to keep the plan open ended by putting a nine or six months time frame on the reduction rather than a potential date at when it ends altogether.
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US and North Korean officials had been haggling over a shared definition of the sprawling, three-square-mile site and the last-minute overture sought to advance the North Koreans' proposal for dismantling it.
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The satisfying ones among these books reveal what really happens in rooms journalists almost never get to enter — the haggling, the outbursts, the inching toward compromise and then the stubborn clinging to old positions.
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Party leaders on Friday discussed their different stances on foreign, defense, trade and European policy in various formats and they were expected to continue on Saturday, haggling about climate protection, immigration, transport and agriculture.
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The two posts, as well as the head of the European Central Bank and the EU foreign policy chief, will become vacant later this year, and months of vigorous haggling among EU leaders is expected.
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The loud, bustling market—with its vaulted ceilings and relentless crush of haggling customers—was overwhelming for an eight-year-old accustomed to Costco, but now it's one of my favorite places in the city.
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Trump got involved in the health-care bill late, never made any kind of robust public case for it and got fed up after a few days haggling with the Freedom Caucus and other members.
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There is a reality-television program called American Pickers, and what happens on it is this: A junkman drives around in a van and offers to buy other people's junk, sometimes haggling over the price.
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The package, agreed after months of haggling between the Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and her Social Democrat coalition partners, has already been criticized as inadequate in view of the urgent challenges posed by climate change.
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The package, agreed after months of haggling between the Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and her Social Democrat coalition partners, has already been criticized as inadequate in view of the urgent challenges posed by climate change.
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The European Union countered on Friday by drafting a competing resolution calling for a United Nations mission to Yemen, setting the scene for a week of diplomatic haggling before the Council decides how to proceed.
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Flores, who at the time was working for the Drug Enforcement Administration, was haggling with Guzman over the price of 20 kilos of heroin and hoping the kingpin could lop off some of the price.
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Aides were still figuring out logistics as Air Force Two was in the air, haggling with the Turkish government about news media access to the palace where the bilateral meetings were scheduled to take place.
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Most colleges are already in a quiet price war, haggling on financial aid offers in April or throwing discounts at families earlier in the season and calling it merit aid or some other euphemistic term.
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That "if" is a big one, considering Mr. Trump's unorthodox approach to the presidency and the haggling that is bound to occur when several hundred legislators contribute their two cents to such an important discussion.
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Then read this short overview of what has happened so far, including the latest turn of events: Britain's two main political parties are haggling over the nation's withdrawal from the European Union, known as Brexit.
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The constant haggling over Brexit, and the weakness of recent British governments, gave Mr. Bercow a platform to intervene on behalf of lawmakers who wanted to stand in the way of a no-deal Brexit.
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"The defense capabilities and strength of the country are not negotiable or up for haggling," Khamenei was cited as saying at a ceremony at the Imam Ali army officer's academy in Tehran, according to state media.
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Regular heroin production, by contrast, depends on the seasonal poppy harvest, which requires collecting opium gum from various farmers, haggling over the price per kilo, and still paying a cook to refine the gum into heroin.
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Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama has hosted plenty of confrontational foreign leaders at the White House, haggling over military aggression, trade disputes and any other irritant that brings a head of state into the Oval Office.
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The parliamentary groups of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and her Social Democrat (SPD) partners, have agreed on the main points and could agree on the full package on Thursday, ending months of haggling, said the paper.
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Before Hurricane Maria struck, the bondholders had been haggling for every last penny they could get through a court-governed bankruptcy-like process that was set up through a law passed earlier this year called Promesa.
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LAGOS (Reuters) - With Christmas just weeks away, Dolapo Beckley was among a throng of shoppers haggling at a market in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos, where the prices of some goods have doubled in the last year.
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His pledge to stop conducting nuclear and missile tests is the kind of concession that would have taken Washington years of haggling to extract from the North in the past — and only with promises of aid.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Consumer goods companies, emboldened by a strong U.S. economy, are rolling out price increases on everyday products and groceries after several years of haggling with big retailers that needed cheaper products to attract customers.
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Although the deals are complex, carveouts are some of the most lucrative deals ever done by private equity firms and investors expect them to be placed with relatively few problems other than some haggling over pricing.
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Abraham's ostensibly endearing cantankerousness — he has a habit of haggling over prices, a would-be quirky character detail that feeds into a nasty stereotype — becomes increasingly trivializing as we learn more about the horrors he witnessed.
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The haggling has turned off some Democrats who grouse privately that it has distracted from the vital task of plotting a winning agenda for the next Congress and an effective plan for taking on Mr. Trump.
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Many more say they believe that if Mr. Assad remains in power, the outcome tacitly accepted by the global powers haggling over Syria's future, they have only arrest, torture, death or forced conscription to return to.
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But months of congressional haggling have led nowhere, and in the meantime, groups on both sides of the issue have turned to the courts in the hope of resurrecting the program — or ending it for good.
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And in a speech on Wednesday morning responding to Pelosi's (D-Calif.) refusal to transmit the articles to the Senate, McConnell said "there will be no haggling" with the House over the contours of the trial.
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After months of political haggling and legal debate, Canada joined the U.S. states of California, Massachusetts, Maine, Alaska, Colorado, Washington, Nevada, Vermont and Oregon as the first Group of Seven country to OK adult use of pot.
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I ended up going with Shenzhen Uwheel Technology Co., Ltd and after negotiating with a little haggling on the price, I got them to create logo stickers to brand the hoverboards, and it was time to pay.
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If such a combination proves achievable, it could allay concerns about the kind of political uncertainty that plagued Spain through much of 2016, when politicians spent nearly a year haggling over the formation of a new government.
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"The time has come for Fidesz to stop the humiliating haggling with the European People's Party," the paper said in an editorial titled 'A new alliance!' on Thursday, suggesting Fidesz should join forces with European nationalists instead.
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After months of haggling over top jobs and tense discussions with ECB supervisors about capital raising, BPM and Banco Popolare agreed in March to create a group with 173 billion euros in assets and 4 million clients.
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International donors, who pledged $4.1 billion for reconstruction last year, have been left frustrated as little of that fund has been spent because of haggling between political parties, leading to a delay in helping millions of survivors.
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The companies have been in talks for weeks to sell Boost to Dish Network Corp but are haggling over issues such as restrictions over who can buy the divested assets if they are sold in the future.
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" Speaking to the Irish Times this week, O'Rourke said most countries accepted the principle that companies would have to pay some profits' tax in the country of sale or consumption and were now "haggling over the price.
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A $1.6 billion deal with China's Three Gorges Project Corporation to build the West Seti hydropower plant in Nepal has also been put in doubt, with officials saying the Chinese company has been haggling for better terms.
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The funding agreement comes after lawmakers and staffers were still haggling earlier Wednesday about a handful of outstanding issues, including the type of physical barriers that could be used along the border and some of the locations.
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JULIET MACUR Olympic pin trading might someday become a medal sport at the Games, but for now it's a great way to meet people from different countries and take on the adventure of haggling in different languages.
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After casting their nets the previous night, they haul their take at dawn to local buyers, who are currently paying around $2.50 (3,000 dinars) a kilo after haggling – a 50 percent drop in price compared to 2017.
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And that model — high-margin, very scalable, doesn't involve haggling with content owners for rights — could be very useful to have up and running when Spotify goes public, which could happen by the end of the year.
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Administration officials are now continuing to search for steps that could help mitigate a worsening outbreak, including haggling with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over a package of economic measures and inching closer to declaring a major disaster.
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The election itself is expected to result in an inconclusive muddle, as it is unlikely that any party or coalition will reach the 40 percent threshold necessary to form a government, which could take weeks of haggling.
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In Rand's universe, capitalism was glamorous and liberating, with none of the mundane concerns — haggling over health insurance, paying off student loans, scrambling for child care, managing precarious employment — that consume so much of everyday American experience.
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Or lawmakers could decide to trade legislative haggling for family holiday time and punt their disputes for another day, agreeing to temporary funding bills known as continuing resolutions — or C.R.s — to keep the government open into 2019.
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NEW YORK, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Many companies negotiating mergers and acquisitions (M&A) contracts are haggling over whether the global coronavirus outbreak should offer legal grounds for the acquirers to walk away from their agreements, dealmakers say.
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There is nostalgia for the days before the Islamic Revolution, when President Jimmy Carter came to Iran to meet with Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi — the son of Reza Shah — instead of weapons experts haggling over nuclear centrifuges.
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She's living with her Aunt Ida (Gabrielle Rose), a dour scold whose opprobrium has seeped into every corner of her house and who enters, haggling with a man who proves to be Maud's brother, Charles (Zachary Bennett).
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While most lawmakers won't return to Washington until next week — when haggling over the trial process is likely to begin in earnest — McConnell is expected to deliver remarks on the Senate floor Friday criticizing the Democrats' position.
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This follows a previous New York Times report that detailed the haggling by executive branch officials over the legal consequences of the president's decision to hold back $391 million worth of military assistance for the Ukrainian military.
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Although this dispute centers on boldface names haggling over an 87-acre property with a pond, swimming pool and a seven-figure price tag, the story is a familiar one: When a sale goes bad, tempers fly.
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Strong local opposition to the project, haggling over price, massive delays and cost overruns at EPRs under construction in France and Finland and the takeover of Areva's reactor arm by EDF are also delaying the huge project.
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The price is non-negotiable, which is likely meant to dissuade those who enjoy haggling with car salespeople, but it makes for a less dramatic experience for those who wish buying a car were like buying a phone.
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The bank and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) have since been haggling in court over Westpac's fine, and on Friday the judge rejected the regulator's argument that the bank be made to pay A$58 million.
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The unabated violence was disappointing after days of haggling over the wording of the Security Council resolution, which passed Saturday with the approval of both Russia, which backs the Syrian government, and the United States, which opposes it.
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He said that after years of people performing Eastman works for little or no money — and even large festivals haggling for fees he considered exploitatively low — the partnership with Schirmer would ensure the Eastman estate got its due.
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It is an approach that has defined Mr. Trump's deal-making career: Make some seemingly outlandish offer as a starting point for negotiations to try to shift the entire frame of reference for the haggling that will follow.
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Mr. Kerry narrated his own role as relentless negotiator, sometimes using background briefings to read aloud from copious handwritten notes he had taken while haggling over the Iran nuclear deal and the removal of chemical weapons from Syria.
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An article on Friday about the haggling and eventual agreement between congressional Democrats and the Trump Administration over the new North American trade deal misstated the stance of Representative Terri A. Sewell of Alabama on past trade deals.
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There were weeks I found myself deciding between 20 or 30 worthy candidates, striking and revising and haggling with myself; there were weeks I worried I'd have to publish some non-round number because the world seemed so quiet.
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If it was messy, the haggling also underscored how the European Union matters more as the bloc struggles to respond to the challenges of migration, climate change, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, inequality and the rise of populists.
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It has been difficult to determine if the United States and Turkey are serious about removing Ankara from the F-35 weapons program, or if each side is haggling for the best deal it can get on the Patriot.
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The EU's ex-communist eastern members, which have joined the bloc since 2004, are haggling over candidates for key posts to help steer the course of a continent long dominated by wealthy western states such as Germany and France.
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British and EU negotiators worked through several nights ahead of Thursday's summit to agree a compromise on the Irish border issue, the most difficult part of Brexit, haggling over everything from customs checks to the thorny issue of consent.
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A little strategic haggling before the May 1 student decision deadline can cut $5,000 to $10,000 more a year off the tuition bill, says Joel Peck, a certified public accountant in New York who advises families on college admissions.
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New tariffs on over $13 billion of Chinese goods are due to take effect on Sunday, but the Trump administration is sending mixed signals on delaying them as the United States and China keep haggling over a trade deal.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Haggling over Greece's latest round of debt relief is likely to run down close to the wire again, Slovenia's finance minister said on Thursday, and he called for the cost of the aid to be more evenly shared.
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In a PEOPLE exclusive sneak peek at Tuesday night's episode of Fresh Off the Boat, Locklear, 55, guest stars as Marvin's (Ray Wise) ex-wife, Sarah, and shows off her impressive, yet mischievous, haggling skills while at a yard sale.
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Besides haggling over the rules, a handful of countries—including big polluters such as Ukraine—used the jamboree to announce plans for more ambitious "nationally determined contributions" (or NDCs, as the voluntary pledges countries submit under the Paris deal are known).
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The goal is to pass the omnibus bill during the one-week extension, but differences remain and leaders of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees are still haggling over the final points -- with input from bipartisan leadership and the White House.
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Negotiators worked frantically this week to agree a draft compromise on the question of the Irish border, the most difficult part of Brexit, haggling over everything from customs checks to the thorny issue of consent from the Northern Irish administration.
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IT TOOK decades for politics—that messy, flawed business of gauging the public mood, haggling with interest groups and turning out votes—to build America's prison system: a behemoth of staggering size and cost, unlike anything else in the developed world.
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That's too stingy given the scope of the problems and will in any case be vulnerable to the usual haggling over federal spending that occurs in the days leading up to the end of the government's fiscal year, on Sept. 30.
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Failure to confirm Von der Leyen would pitch European politics into deep crisis - it took three days of haggling for leaders to come up with a candidate with a chance of winning the backing of both leaders and the parliament.
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But Ms. Pelosi, who excels at legislative haggling and the corralling of a sometimes fractious group of Democrats, has demonstrated in the past that she has the capacity to win over dissenters with a mix of sweeteners and unspoken threats.
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For a president who has repeatedly promised to get America out of foreign wars, the decisions reflect a broader conviction that bringing troops home — or at least moving them out of hot spots — is more important than haggling for advantage.
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At issue, as always, was Medicare for All — Senator Bernie Sanders's health care plan, which Senator Elizabeth Warren also supports, that promises universal coverage without co-pays, premiums, deductibles or haggling over claims, under a single government-run insurance system.
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In the juggernaut of horse trading over the European Union's top jobs, Ms. von der Leyen emerged as the surprise winner from days of back-room haggling, a qualified but compromise candidate to break what threatened to become an insurmountable deadlock.
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With the future of Britain's status in Europe still undecided after years of haggling, Brexit has inevitably been high on the agenda, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson's vow to "get Brexit done" at the core of his Conservative Party's campaign.
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As the sun rose over Berlin's chancellery, the party officials inside were still haggling over the question of how to set a price for each tonne of carbon used in heating buildings and in transport, and what that price should be.
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In fact, choosing stocks with cute tickers like those has proven to be a profitable strategy over the previous 193 years, more so than haggling over profit-and-loss statements, studying price to earnings ratios or listening to boring CEO calls.
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But managing a meeting of 67 counterparts, many of whom he has yet to meet personally, would test even the most seasoned diplomat, and it involves the kind of complex multiparty haggling that few chief executives know how to handle.
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The Wall Street Journal reported earlier that Ross' trip may be in doubt as other U.S. and Chinese officials were haggling over U.S. demands for long-term contracts for China to increase its purchases of U.S. agricultural and energy commodities.
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Less than five months before Britain is due to leave the EU on March 29, negotiators are still haggling over a backup plan for the land border between British-ruled Northern Ireland and EU member Ireland should they fail to clinch a deal.
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The idea, under which the SPD would contribute ministers to a Merkel-led cabinet, would allow the party to support Merkel's conservatives in areas where both parties were in agreement but leave other areas subject to ad hoc haggling between parliamentary parties.
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Besides haggling over the rules, a handful of countries—including big polluters such as Ukraine—used the jamboree to announce plans for more ambitious "nationally determined contributions" (or NDCs, as the voluntary pledges countries submit under the Paris deal are known for short).
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"We will once again make clear to Italy that from our point of view, due legal process can only result in the release of #CarolaRackete," Maas said on Twitter, adding that haggling in Europe over the distribution of refugees needed to end.
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On non-defense spending covering a wide range of domestic programs, the negotiators have been haggling over 2020 spending in the range of $600 billion to around $640 billion, although some in the White House were pushing for a significantly lower amount.
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Two administration officials familiar with the matter said Ross' negotiations of specific commitments on Chinese purchases of U.S. agricultural and energy commodities would take place over the weekend despite a report that initial haggling with Beijing this week could delay or cancel it.
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A source with knowledge of the deal said it had been completed at the end of 2016 after being held up by some haggling over price following the $40 million purchase of another similar service, DailyFX, by leading UK broker IG Limited.
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Clinton has had little success articulating her basic governing approach, the case for her has instead come to seem almost entirely instrumental — that she has the best chance of being elected or would be better at haggling with Republicans for incremental gains.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian and French negotiators were haggling on Friday over the price of 36 combat planes for the ageing Indian air force, officials of the two nations said, just days before President Francois Hollande visits New Delhi to cement commercial ties.
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Less than five months before Britain is due to leave the EU on March 29, negotiators are still haggling over a backup plan for the land border between British-ruled Northern Ireland and EU member Ireland, should they fail to clinch a deal.
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Even though polls suggest that the Catalan branch of Podemos will struggle to reach 10 percent support on Thursday, the party has made some of its biggest advances in Catalonia, and it too could play a pivotal role in post-election haggling.
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As luck would have it, right when Courtenay and I were haggling over the trip, we were invited to a dinner party in New Delhi where I was seated near a charming, fit-looking Indian with a bald head and handlebar mustache.
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After days of partisan bickering and closed-door haggling, negotiators emerged from their final huddle and announced that they had struck a deal to send relief to workers, businesses and hospitals devastated by the pandemic and the economic disruption it has caused.
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It is costing $600,000 for the Coats family to rebuild their home, but the money they are receiving from their insurance company, even after much haggling, is just $350,000, forcing them to take out a second loan in addition to their mortgage.
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"BACKSTOP" GONE Negotiators worked frantically this week to agree a draft compromise on the question of the Irish border, the most difficult part of Brexit, haggling over everything from customs checks to the thorny issue of consent from the Northern Irish administration.
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Most people shudder at the idea of strangers traipsing through their home, touching everything and haggling over each item However, an online company called Everything But the House (EBTH) is billing itself as an answer to the potential awkwardness of property auctions.
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But in Finland, we are automatically covered, no matter what, by taxpayer-funded universal health care that equals the United States' in quality (despite the misleading claims you hear to the contrary), all without piles of confusing paperwork or haggling over huge bills.
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Would-be buyers and sellers are haggling over secondary market valuations as investors switch into intense active management and consider whether to ride out the volatility or to reduce positions while hedge funds and more aggressive bank loan and high-yield asset managers circle.
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Rules fight The party's rules panel will meet Thursday to decide whether any nominating boundaries should be proposed for the convention, but the real fighting, haggling and negotiating will be taking place on the sidelines -- over drinks and around the pool at this resort.
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Executives and labor leaders have also been haggling over decisions on where to build electric cars and pool related resources, complicated by the influence of Lower Saxony, VW's home state and No. 2 shareholder where six of the carmaker's 10 German plants are located.
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Less than five months before Britain is due to leave the European Union on March 29, negotiators are still haggling over a backup plan for the land border between British-ruled Northern Ireland and EU member Ireland, if they fail to clinch a deal.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia is haggling over the terms of a $14 billion rail deal with its Chinese partners and can reduce its ballooning national debts by $50 billion by doing away with mega projects, its prime minister said in an interview published on Saturday.
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But the list has helped reduce the daily haggling over how long and often each musician gets to play, said Jimmy Dalton Baker, 28, another regular, who called live renditions of songs by Mr. Lennon and the Beatles an integral part of visiting Strawberry Fields.
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The agreement comes just over a week after Fox first approached Sky and follows several days of haggling in London which resulted in Fox lifting its offer three times to secure the backing of Sky's independent directors, according to two people familiar with the situation.
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The last time I saw Geralt of Rivia, he was standing somewhere in a marsh—though come think of it, that doesn't even narrow-down which game I'm referring to—haggling with a peat farmer about the price for killing some kind of swamp monster.
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Not unlike when buying a mattress, most people find themselves picking one of two* options: heading to a chain couch store and haggling with someone who needs to keep the price up for the sake of commissions, or saying "screw that" and heading for IKEA.
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Mr. Trump approached Mr. Kim, the North Korean leader, as if he were a competing property developer haggling over a prized asset — and assumed that, in the end, Mr. Kim would be willing to give it all up for the promise of future prosperity.
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Some lobbyists have expressed frustration that Mr. Muzinich and his Treasury team have been overly secretive about the tax plan and that, despite his business background, he does not always appear enthusiastic to be haggling over tax code deductions with representatives of American industries.
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On a recent Sunday in Windhoek's Chinatown, where dozens of shops occupy a series of long warehouses in the city's industrial district, Namibian families strolled the lanes, haggling over everything from knockoff Nikes and plastic children's toys to solar panels and secondhand mobile phones.
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Giuliani told Politico on Thursday that Trump's legal team was still haggling with the special counsel's office over whether Mueller would be allowed to ask the president questions related to possible obstruction of justice, but that he expects a decision to be made soon.
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Less than five months before Britain is due to leave the EU on March 29, a deal is 95 percent done but officials have repeatedly cautioned they are still haggling over the fate of the land border between British-ruled Northern Ireland and EU member Ireland.
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Tourists who watch women haggling in floating markets over baskets of mangosteen and fresh fish, or who see peasants in conical hats farming paddies by hand, imagine that they are witnessing something timeless—life as it always has been, its rhythms dictated by seasons, land and sea.
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After years of haggling over how to verify the North Korean pledge, the six-party talks broke down in 2009, leaving Mr. Obama to deal with a North Korea that had made progress in its nuclear program and remained opaque and suspicious of the outside world.
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It was a quick boat or taxi ride (we downloaded Grab, the Thai version of Uber, which was generally cheaper than taxis and required less haggling) to popular sights such as The Grand Palace, Wat Pho (Reclining Buddha Temple), the Flower Market, floating markets, and Chinatown.
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They recall the kind of dowdy, out-of-fashion clothes that were all you could get in the final years of the Communist regime, when, as Gvasalia recalls, a simple pair of Levi's jeans was a prized possession, and the result of much haggling and smuggling.
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WASHINGTON — Senior lawmakers announced on Thursday that they had reached a tentative bipartisan agreement on funding the government for the remainder of the fiscal year, offering a solution to avert a shutdown after weeks of haggling over money for President Trump's border wall and other matters.
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The closed-door meeting kicked off a year of political haggling ahead of a party congress which will mark the crucial mid-way point in Mr Xi's leadership (assuming he decides to follow precedent and step down after a decade in power—some analysts wonder whether he will).
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I handed her my twenty in exchange for the small plastic package and the guilt you get from haggling with someone, then showing them you had enough money for the original price tag all along, then wondering if you would have haggled with them if it was anyplace else.
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In secret, and without any congressional hearings, McConnell has been haggling with both sides trying to craft a bill that will somehow satisfy at least 50 of the 52 Senate Republicans, several of whom who rejected the last version of the bill for a variety of ideological reasons.
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The Financial Times reported that top U.S. and Chinese officials have resolved most of the issues standing in the way of a deal to end their long-running trade dispute but are still haggling over how to implement and enforce the agreement, citing people briefed on the talks.
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But, like my use of other service apps, which often involve delivery fees and extra tips for drivers and service professionals, I anticipated a bit of a trade-off for the convenience of being able to take care of these issues without haggling or multiple stops at multiple locations.
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Britain's two main political parties are haggling over the nation's withdrawal from the European Union, but even with the departure on hold for the next few months, the badly divided government remains in crisis, unable to agree on an approach to the country's biggest peacetime decision in decades.
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The haggling between Cuban exiles and criminal figures was recounted in a July 21963, 290, memo by the F.B.I. that was marked "SECRET" and released in full on Thursday as part of a stash of files related, if sometimes only theoretically, to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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On Friday, The Washington Post reported that the team led by Mr. Hagin was haggling with a group of North Korean officials led by Kim Chang-son, the director of North Korea's state affairs commission secretariat, over who would pay the hotel bill for Mr. Kim and his entourage.
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With the United States on the sidelines, Russia and Turkey have been haggling over Idlib since September 2018, when Mr. Putin met Mr. Erdogan in Sochi, Russia, and reluctantly agreed that Mr. Assad's forces, which are also supported by Iran, would hold off on a long-anticipated final assault.
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That set up a significant clash over when British voters will get to decide who should handle Britain's departure from the European Union, with opposition Labour lawmakers haggling over what stage of the Brexit process gives them the best chance of wrenching control from Mr. Johnson's enfeebled government.
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RELATED: The race for votes on health care is on, once again The goal for next week is to pass the omnibus bill, but differences remain and leaders of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees are still haggling over the final points -- with input from bipartisan leadership and the White House.
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On a typical night, there will be actual physical struggles and a great deal of bitter haggling over the particulars — over whether it will be she or I who keeps vigil as he bravely contends against his own fatigue, over how many stories will be read to him and which ones.
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The companies are in talks to sell Boost to Dish but are haggling over issues such as restrictions over who can buy the divested assets if they are sold in the future, with T-Mobile and Deutsche Telekom seeking to prevent them from going to a cable or technology company.
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The festival, a 12-day event that ends May 25, is an indisputable hub of glamour and spectacle, but it is also an occasion for haggling and deal making — a marketplace where merchants sometimes flaunt movies that haven't been made yet, in the hope of drawing media attention and attracting film buyers.
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The boards of both companies had been locked in negotiations over the last few months, haggling over the value of the transaction and the management team, in particular the role of Mr. Ianniello, whose employment agreement included a hefty severance package if he was not named chief executive of the current CBS.
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The boards of both companies had been locked in negotiations over the last few months, haggling over the value of the transaction and the management team, in particular the role of Mr. Ianniello, whose employment agreement included a hefty severance package if he was not named chief executive of the current CBS.
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WASHINGTON — When President Trump's new Middle East envoy began haggling over the details of an agreement with Israel to curb construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, they turned to a politically improbable adviser: Yael Lempert, a 43-year-old diplomat who worked on the issue in Barack Obama's White House.
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Johnson, who renegotiated a new divorce deal with the EU in October, has promised to "get Brexit done", a slogan he has repeated constantly during campaigning in a bid to win over Labour supporters who backed leaving the bloc, and those who are simply fed up of the political haggling over the issue.
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A White House official said the date and the location of the meeting would be announced later, suggesting either that the Trump administration was seeking concessions from the North Koreans before Mr. Trump committed to the meeting or that the two sides were still haggling over the site and other logistical details.
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A voice with Chapo's nasally Sinaloan accent could be heard haggling over the price of cocaine, successfully talking the guerrillas down from $2,100 to $2,000 per kilo, and making arrangements to have the product shipped to a warehouse in Guayaquil, Ecuador, allegedly with the help of corrupt officers in the Ecuadorian army.
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Allies of Mr Trump have praised him for standing up to a bullying China and—by triggering a mini-crisis even before his inauguration in January—expanding his room for manoeuvre with Beijing once he does take office, and begins haggling over such questions as trade and Chinese help over North Korea's nuclear programme.
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Higher ups at the organization were caught on tape haggling over prices for parts like eyeballs and livers and doing so over forkfuls of food and sips of wine and often with macabre humor, joking about funding a Lamborghini or laughing over the remains of "another boy," to quote abortionist Savita Ginde in one video.
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Tsipras was speaking following Tuesday's initial deal on a package of reforms — including such unpopular moves as cutting pensions — between creditors and the government The agreement ends six months of staff-level haggling and will pave the way for the disbursement of further rescue funds if approved first by the Greek parliament and then by euro zone finance ministers.
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As Syria burns, it falls to Malek to renovate the flat — haggling for light fixtures from the Electricity Souk during a blackout, and keeping an eye on a corrupt contractor while the Assad regime gasses its own people, drops barrel bombs — oil drums loaded with shrapnel — from helicopters, and disappears thousands to be tortured in underground prisons.
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While Muscat emphasized that the Lifeline case was unique because of the alleged violations of the crew, the refusal by Italy and Malta to open their ports to the ship — and the haggling among EU states over how to distribute the migrants — showed a hardening of positions as EU leaders head into a summit where migration policies are expected to be the focus.
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During the meeting, the senior French official explained that Macron, who is hosting this year's G7 in Biarritz, France, in August, would instead prefer a "Chair's Summary" that took stock of the wide-ranging discussions and concrete action to address global challenges debated during the G7 process, rather than spend time endlessly haggling over the drafting of a final communiqué.
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During the scene in which Mother Courage cannot resist haggling over the price she will pay to ransom her son Swiss Cheese (Deandre Sevon), who has fallen into the hands of the enemy, her hard carapace of ruthlessness melts away, and we see the shellshocked mother, aghast that she has just allowed her son to die to save a few pennies.
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The disaster aid bill came together quickly last week after months of haggling, as President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE withdrew a demand that the package include emergency funding for the Southern border.
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With Spain, France and other EU member states lobbying for various national vested interests in that political declaration - a 26-page wishlist on future trade and security ties separate from the 585-page withdrawal agreement - there was concern in Brussels that haggling could get out of hand and derail Sunday's tightly choreographed formal summit of the 27 leaders with May.
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Legislation to curb surprise medical bills has failed to pass the House or Senate after almost a year of haggling over technical provisions: While patient advocates and payers want out-of-network doctors to charge a fee benchmarked to in-network or local rates, physician providers and staffing companies backed by private equity firms have lobbied hard to prevent this, resulting in a stalemate.
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Lawmakers seeking a deal on border security that would avert a second partial government shutdown are haggling over figures below President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's demand for $22019 billion in funding for a wall on the Mexican border.
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Twenty years ago, I spent most of my time with nonnative travelers: a couple of strong-willed Italian women whom I met haggling in the medina; two Japanese women that we joined up with for a trek into the Sahara, the last part by camel; Spanish students on a budget even tighter than mine (one night we dined on canned tuna and r'ghayef, Moroccan flatbread, on a medina sidewalk).
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But with the clock ticking — both chambers need to pass the measure and have President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE sign it before Saturday — negotiators also left out several issues that staffers and lawmakers were haggling over right up until the bill was introduced.
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