But such bargains cannot be struck unilaterally.
Since the debt of such companies is easily traded, those around the table can often change, even as a plan is being debated.When a deal cannot be struck, creditors may simply attempt to snatch control of the company.
If a deal cannot be struck, said Dennis Cushman, assistant general manager of the San Diego County Water Authority, a major player in multiparty negotiations intended to win the cities access to the Imperial Valley farmers' water and avert threatened federal sanctions.
But if a deal cannot be struck, then Mr. Rumsfeld's trip can be cited as proof of Mr. Bush's good faith effort to bring along the Russians arm in arm as a respected strategic partner before the president moves ahead and invokes the six-month notification process allowed by the ABM treaty to withdraw from the pact.
This newspaper has a principled preference for all lawmakers being elected, but it does acknowledge the counter-argument, put by determined liberals, that under a constitution where statute cannot be struck down by any court, a revising chamber which enjoys independence from the political fray can do useful things.
The outsider cannot but be struck by the frequent reluctance of the learned world to recognize important discoveries.
A visitor to Diamond or ISIS cannot but be struck by the fact that many of the hundreds of researchers who use them are not physicists at all.
One cannot but be struck by the irony of this gentleman's decision: six months ago savers were lining up to withdraw money from the Rock - and a lot of that was going into Icesave, which had (and still has) some of the best rates on offer.
If we think how the thought of Merleau-Ponty might prolong itself into the 21st century, or as it protends a future, then we cannot not be struck by the fact that his philosophy does not entertain any conception whatsoever of an 'apocalyptic end of philosophy' followed by the emergence of some essentially different mode of thought.
Thumbing through the catalog of John Virtue's North Sea paintings, one cannot fail to be struck by the kinship in spirit with Houthuesen's work.
