Or perhaps, officials said, one side or the other will put a final offer on the table in the closing hours and force a resolution or a strike.
"And I asked them about Eileen's column and said, 'One side's saying one thing, we have another side saying something else.
After the adjustments are made, he said, one side would win if the projected cost of its plane was more than 1percentt less than its rival's.
The base is what leads to, say, one side dominating possession, or a right-winger regularly isolating the opposing left-back, or to a side facing two solid banks of four.
He spoke of the danger of "rushing for Chapter 7 just because someone says one side or other has used chemical weapons" and said it was "unacceptable" to base such decisions on emotions rather than on the final conclusions of specialists.
"Israel has a right to defend itself" says one side.
"That's literally how we speak to people at house parties: 'Would you have shot the gorilla?' They say one side and then I argue the other.
Normally, they'll stick their necks out and say one side "won" or "lost," but my sneaking suspicion is that a lot of the talking heads just don't have the attention span to sit through seven hours of politicians talking.
David Laws's account of the coalition negotiations is interesting and valuable for future generations but it is, as he himself says, one sided.
