But perhaps the kidnappers thought the Martís negotiated too much over the amount.
She cautions, however, against negotiating too aggressively.
The lesson that Butera and others on his management team drew was that the Atlantic City casinos had negotiated away too much of their house advantage, something they said was common at Foxwoods under previous management teams.
I can see how in an ideal world benevolent lobbyists could help legislators negotiate through too much information.
Learn to look for bargains and learn to negotiate too.
"There would not have been too much negotiating to be done, even, in 2001 or 2002, because the Taliban's senior leadership made their approaches in a conciliatory manner, acknowledging the new order in the country," said Alex Strick von Linschoten, author of An Enemy We Created.
The question, said Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), was: "Are we locked into the number for what amounts to the next year, or are we going to be able to get to the point where there are budget negotiations that can work with that number?" The concern for Harkin and King, among others, is that the party could sacrifice too much negotiating power by signing off on Collins' plan.
In mature superpower relationships, like the one between the United States and the U.S.S.R., relatively small-potato crises often lead to negotiated settlements — there is too much at stake, strategically, politically, economically — for things to end otherwise.
They want to negotiate but not divulge too much of their hand.
Critics say the European commission, which is responsible for negotiating trade agreements, has ceded too much power to national parliaments.
