"If I've got a negotiating session or I have got a meeting that has a very high stakes outcome," Mr. Gore said, "instead of using the last four or five minutes to cram more details into my head, I will just relax and just slow down".
It is a very high stakes battle as he made clear when I interviewed him today.
If Dodge is right, Pell is playing a very high stakes game of poker.
Android And Apple Win The Mobile Internet All of this fighting is for a very high stakes game the future of computing, which is mobile.
Negotiations continue, say multiple sources, between eBay, the new proposed Skype owner group, and the original founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, via their company Joltd, in what is turning into a very high stakes and very emotional game of poker.
It is also a very high stakes issue for the rest of EU, which would be changed forever if its second biggest economy and one of its two main military powers was taken away.
It is this sense of a gamble for very high stakes beyond the university campus that makes another season of discontent a distinct possibility.
It is a covert war, with very high stakes, in which civilians are the primary targets, and Majid Shahriari is unlikely to be the last victim.
For decades, American national politics has been the province of a meritocracy, a self-nominated, self-important bunch who choose to be part of the media-political apparatus because it is a bloody sport for very high stakes.
"These numbers represent an enormous social experiment with very high stakes," said Steven A. Camarota, director of research for the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates stricter immigration control.
It was a time of great turmoil and very high stakes.
