The Senate took a first step today toward a vote on a Republican proposal to repeal the federal estate tax, and Democrats scrambled to avoid defections that could allow passage of the bill later this week.
Salomon's new parent will have to tread carefully to avoid defections, especially within the close-knit group of gifted but touchy proprietary traders who bet billions of the bank's own money.A third reason to be sceptical is history.
To stamp out the rebels while avoiding defections among his Sunni soldiers, Assad has been forced to rely on a core of Alawite-dominated units.
Importantly, for this scenario and the following scenarios, the total number of steps, or iterations, should be known only to the instructor so as to avoid mass defection on the last step (Axelrod and Hamilton [1981]; Axelrod [1997]).
At least one senior AQAP commander and a tribal leader allied with the group have expressed sympathy with IS, but so far al Qaeda's strongest affiliate has remained independent and avoided major defections.
After working closely with Democrats in his first two years, Mr. Clinton redoubled his efforts thereafter to avoid full-scale defections as he governed from the center.
This week's testimony of General Petraeus and the American ambassador in Iraq, Ryan C. Crocker, had elated White House officials, who by midweek said they felt they would easily avoid any significant defections by Republican lawmakers and thus face no real legislative constraints in how the administration conducts the war.
The Obama team wanted to avoid more high-profile defections.
Teklit said that the federation learned its lesson and that some players were allowed to play professionally in a handful of friendly countries to avoid any more embarrassing defections.
In addition, we also include the Snowdrift game, which isolates the other tension present in PD, namely the temptation to defect, avoiding the undesirable consequences of being defected upon, because in SD mutual defection becomes the worst case scenario.
