They could stand back and mothball section 40 while negotiating space develops.
But his apparent lack of negotiating space reflects both his own weakness and the virulence of anti-American sentiment among ordinary Pakistanis.
Mr. Rumsfeld's decision this week to highlight his delay of a series of missile defense tests gave the president more negotiating space with Mr. Putin.
The idea behind the American deal in Geneva last October was to get a big chunk of LEU out of Iran to build confidence, create some negotiating space, and remove material that could get subverted.
European diplomats said the final day of talks would show whether Iran's seemingly immovable stance on UN sanctions was a hardball negotiating tactic, or whether Khamenei had left them no negotiating space.
European diplomats say the next day or so will show whether Iran's seemingly immovable stance on UN sanctions is a hardball negotiating tactic, or whether the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, has left them no negotiating space.
European diplomats say the next day or so will show whether Iran's seemingly immovable stance on UN sanctions is a hardball negotiating tactic, or whether the supreme leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, has left them no negotiating space.
The protest, to be fair, was a mess, but then attempts to make cities safer also sedates urban space, clearing it of the some of the messiness that makes urban life alluring precisely because it encourages us to negotiate space.
But his power depends upon his ability to preserve the Senate as a sterile negotiating space in which he can persuade the fifty-two members of his caucus, among them some of the most grandiose personalities in American public life, to join an anonymous partisan mass.
There are still 1.3 million acres of common land in England and Wales – negotiated space where people having posh picnics have to get along with those who are out walking their dogs, playing football or blaring out music next to toppled cider cans.
