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Indeed, Germany's hard-ball tactics on Greece are driving up borrowing costs across the euro-zone periphery, with potentially damaging consequences.
Fixing Problem Economies Is Like Wrestling a Balloon Simon Nixon 2011
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Indeed, Germany's hard-ball tactics on Greece are driving up borrowing costs across the euro-zone periphery, with potentially damaging consequences.
Fixing Problem Economies Is Like Wrestling a Balloon Simon Nixon 2011
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An ideological boss can't win nonetheless hard-ball lieutenants, so nonetheless their participation is inevitable, what counts is how good they have been controlled.
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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If they can pull crap like they did yesterday, you can play hard-ball too!
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More than anything, though, the interventions reflect a controlling style of this White House and of Mr. Emanuel, who employed similar hard-ball tactics to recruit candidates when he was running the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
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Shumlin, the former state Senate pro-tem, is an acerbic and witty liberal with a reputation for playing hard-ball politics.
Terry J. Allen: In Vermont, Shades of McCarthy Terry J. Allen 2010
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An ideological boss can't win nonetheless hard-ball lieutenants, so nonetheless their participation is inevitable, what counts is how good they have been controlled.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009
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Not the worst of solutions showing that hard-ball is not everything.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Attempts to Defeat the Kagan Nomination, and Political Hardball 2010
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This was hard-ball politics at its most devastating proving that ultimately the Soviets were more important to the Western allies than the Poles.
Five Best 2010
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If these summits are any indication, Chinese leaders are prepared to play global hard-ball, insisting on compliance with their core demands and giving up little even on matters of secondary importance.
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