The atmosphere is so homey that instead of lining up at a pricey food concession, you can just go downstairs and help yourself to a potluck supper: homemade cookies, fried chicken, salads, popcorn, pies and cakes — whatever people have brought.
It's a concession you have to make in a free society — if you want a legitimately fascinating, dark, violent game to be available, you have to let Duke Nukem throw his feces around.
"You mean to tell me, Mr. Vice President," Mr. Bush said, "you're retracting your concession?" "You don't have to be snippy about it," Mr. Gore replied, ensuring that the word "snippy" would always be associated with election night conversations between presidential candidates.
Romario and his contemporaries may have had genius in their feet, as the saying goes, but the World Cups they won for Brazil, in 1994 and 2002, came after a long spell of elegant failure, and were triumphs of defensive tactics, not wizardry — a cynical concession, you might say.
If, meanwhile, each time you make a concession you reduce the amount--$5, $4, $3, $2, $1, and finally 50 cents--you can make that last little bit you give feel like it was wrung out of a turnip and convince your counterpart that there's no more where that came from.
It's the deepest concession you can make to someone.
Any concessions you need to offer? A. No.
"This is someone who has consistently said if you make concessions, you only whet the appetite of the arrogant powers.
Students: Tell us about the concessions you've made to fashion, style or beauty, at any point in your life.
Roger Lawson, the deputy chairman of ShareSoc, the group of small shareholders that opposed Dudley's pay, said: "In my experience the concessions you get after a company loses a remuneration vote are not very large.
If you can't get single occupancy or prime location, there are other, smaller concessions you can fight for: your own telephone line, an electric fan, permission to bring your dog into the building on days when you're performing two shows - these things can come into play if there's a dispute about how much they're paying you.
