dicker

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All these filmmakers’ needy, importunate wooing of their writers — and their eventual dickering over script credit — makes their courtship of actual women such as Candice Bergen or Amy Irving look halfhearted by comparison.

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But nothing said at this point can be separated from the bluffing and haggling and dickering central to such high-dollar negotiations.

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Trouble was, Biden couldn’t make it clear to the public that he was willing to dicker — but only over the budget, not the nation’s credit-worthiness.

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One reason is the endless, costly dickering among middlemen like Envision and UnitedHealth to make sure they get their share of the bucks sloshing around in the system.

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That opened the process to almost infinite legal dickering.

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