A company could slim down, negotiate manageable payments to workers and suppliers and keep going, preserving jobs.
So why not sit down, negotiate, and let the world see who is sincere and who isn't?
Terms such as "Chinese auction," "Indian giver," "Jew down" (negotiate), and "gyp" (a bad deal, from the politically incorrect term "Gypsy" for the Roma) are racist and politically incorrect.
"We never see President Bush sitting down negotiating with Nancy Pelosi on television".
According to Michael Silverstein, another BCG consultant and author of "Treasure Hunt: Inside the Mind of the New Consumer", consumers are intensifying their search for value, trading down, negotiating harder in every single product category.
The question now whether the carrier, often crippled by indecision, will get so bogged down negotiating with creditors and labor unions that the franchise erodes beyond viability.
"Our little film was inspired by the people of Northern Ireland, Protestant and Catholic, who after 30 years of war, sat down, negotiated a peace and proved to the world that the Irish are great talkers," he said.
Any sort of coalescing, however, will have to be neighbor to neighbor, bottom-up and not top down, negotiated by people like him, not dictated by the new president, Allen said.
The EU's negotiating mandate for the Council Presidency, which the Commission endorses, was today discussed by COREPER, and the prospect is that the Council will adopt a resolution on the subject and lay down negotiating guidelines in February.
Another failure looms, it is said, proving that the top-down negotiated approach to tackling climate change cannot work.
But they sit down to negotiate with the biggest Satan, and they don't sit down to negotiate with women.
