The news media focus became revenue wrangling, not smaller midriffs.
But the pact that is nominally at the center of the wrangling appears not to be the main problem.
Before that ruling, both operators had issued statements that were seen as an attempt to defuse the dispute and ensure that their wrangling would not undermine Vivo.
And it would also make it easier to build transmission lines, terminals for liquefied natural gas and other unpopular but necessary bits of energy infrastructure, currently cursed by America's BANANA syndrome ("Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anybody").The wrangling is not over yet.
Secondly, even if our negotiating partners continued the talks and Obama gets an acceptable deal, it would likely get bogged down in the Congress over partisan wrangling - not enough labor protection, too many loopholes on immigration.
There were no spears; instead, the bulls were adorned with a small cloth on their back, onto which Velcro "spears" could be attached, and the object of the performance was to wrangle them, not to stab them.
And Pope John Paul II, his robust personality and deep personal spirituality masked authoritarian features that the Catholic Church is still wrangling with, not the least of which is his appointment of apparatchiks as bishops rather than strong, creative leaders.
I can't caregive this, I can't wrangle it, I can't blackmail it, I can't do anything with it".
* The rights were not "wrangled from Barbra Streisand," as originally stated.
We are moving a small herd up a mountainside, and my son and I have broken the first rule of cattle wrangling: don't ride too close to the cows.
