Telstra also extracted better terms for its direct investment in Pacific Century.
No doubt Whitehall could have extracted better value for money under Labour.
This would have made it more difficult for sellers to play the houses off against each other in the hope of extracting better deals.
Consequently, clubs will continue to offer different valuations on players, allowing smaller clubs to extract better value from the transfer market and outperform their bigger, wealthier rivals.
Specialists in education financing nevertheless say that many opportunities exist to extract better value from universities and colleges.
Its trick is to extract better returns by rationalising production and processing, and keeping operating costs and overheads down.
Moreover, companies hoping to cut financing costs realised they could extract better terms by getting an auditor to vouch for them.
If managers were willing to sell or merge their companies, they could be run by people able to extract better returns.
Indeed, with 20,000 additional troops on the way, American commanders seem determined to inflict greater pain on the Taliban first, to push them into negotiations and extract better terms.
Film producers complain that chain operators often negotiate movie deals collectively and will hold out until the day or two before a release to sign deals so that they can extract better terms.
