But there are times when bare-knuckled politics are inescapable, and now is one of them.
After bare-knuckled bargaining with the city, he won tax breaks to refurbish a rundown hotel near Grand Central Terminal.
Mr Kozlowski looks for people like him bare-knuckled, blue-collar fighters, immersed in the business and not the company bureaucracy.
Given the bare-knuckled legal brawl that the election has become, we could sure use some simple truths right about now.
But none seems to have the stomach for the kind of bare-knuckled fight that is needed to make it to the top.
Fixing European budgets remains a messy, bare-knuckled fight, but Herman Van Rompuy, the President of the European Council, will argue that he delivered a deal.
Clinton would love to rip off the gloves and go bare-knuckled.
Thus, the adoption of gloves to make bare-knuckled boxing safer made it possible for fighters to throw head punches without breaking their hands--resulting in more brain injuries and death.
In some cases, this would be the better path but only if the new manager is dedicated to making the hard decisions and not afraid of the bare-knuckled political fight.
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They are living in a world of bare-knuckled competition.
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In this religion-diluted quasi-democracy, where politics tends to be expressed in ritual public chanting or sullen private apathy, the contest has evolved unexpectedly into a bare-knuckled slugging match, complete with taunting rhetoric, dirty tricks and colourful, rowdy fans.
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