I'm no master at it, and have been known to haggle upwards, but I did my best, working through the stock attitudes of mock indignation ("How much?!"), steely determination ("My final offer"), the bit where you pretend to walk away and the inevitable meek return.
In this performance from 2012, recorded at London's King's Place, the band are at their free-flowing best, working through a set of compositions by all three band members and in the process offering up a different and equally-invigorating idea of what the acoustic piano trio can be.
It thinks that issues like health care and climate change and immigration are best worked out through comprehensive bills drawn up by enlightened officials working hand in glove with business interests.
Samsung seem to have ruined what could have been their best work through a fear of getting it wrong – or possibly taking too big a risk.
The Boardman Prize is awarded annually to the student who has, in the judgment of the faculty, done the best work through the end of the second year.
As humanity confronts incredible challenges this century, we have the potential to dramatically expand the number of people capable of independent and rigorous research while helping them communicate and bring out their best work through open editing and publishing.
The private equity sector has been best at working through this type of market.
Despite everyone doing their best to work through the issues, are there irreconcilable differences?
Now that America is doing its best to work through NATO, why cause it to think again?And the damage does not stop there.
Barker's at his best when working through his surreal gripes with seemingly irrelevant elements of everyday living, issuing his audience with calls-to-arms against such things as department stores, analogue watches and the Discovery Channel.
