But Mr. Sokol and other MidAmerican managers drove a hard bargain, rejecting the offer.
"You boys drive a hard bargain, " Brother Jobe said and whipped out a fat roll of bills.
In this scenario, it would be in the best interest of the American to drive a hard bargain.
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Anschutz's first brush with Hollywood goes as far back as 1967, when he characteristically drove a hard bargain.
Merrill is betting that the offer of a couple of thousand jobs will help it drive a hard bargain.
Like Magelli, many entrepreneurs don't think they can drive a hard bargain (or even a soft one) when raising money.
On the other hand, can you really blame Goodell or the owners he reports to for driving a hard bargain?
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So they are sure to drive a hard bargain with Fatah as efforts to create a national unity government get going.
Officials say further savings will come from having driven a hard bargain with generating companies over extending contracts due to expire soon.
McLeish, who has also managed Motherwell, Hibernian and Rangers and the Scotland national side, has insisted he will continue to drive a hard bargain.
And if Russia plays ball it will strike a hard bargain - perhaps securing an interest in Cyprus's offshore gas industry, yet to be developed.
Karren Brady, West Ham's managing director, is likely to try to drive a hard bargain, knowing ministers will be anxious to avoid the alternative of financing annual running costs.
The government of Uzbekistan in particular is likely to "drive a fairly hard bargain" in negotiations with the U.S. over moving military cargo over its territory, said Frederick Starr, chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at Johns Hopkins University.
Thus ensconced, the Assads, like the Qaddafis of Libya and other thugs in the worst rights pits of the world, have made their hard bargain: The only exit from rule will come if or when the rulers swing from lamp posts.
Generation Health simplifies the selection of genetic tests for physicians, it helps explain the test and its results to patients, it safeguards data, and it drives a hard bargain with testing centers through its ability to direct large volumes of tests their way.
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If the dealer can drive a hard enough bargain, the dealership can keep some or all of the incentive money.
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Learning to negotiate a hard-bargain without being ingratiating and without trading power for sympathy is not beyond the ability of women.
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But I think I learned that it's hard to bargain with people who take hostages because they have already decided that your life is theirs to dispose of or save.
Labour Party leader Diederik Samsom, who has advocated spending on job-creation programmes, indicated he would bargain hard in coalition talks.
The idea was to get large institutions to serve as plaintiffs, presumably organizations that would keep a close eye on the litigation and bargain hard over fees.
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He can bargain hard, but he needs to build trust.
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The unions, which now represent less than a tenth of the workforce compared with nearly a third at the start of the 1980s, need to bargain hard to attract new members.
With hard-charging New Jersey bargain hunter Steven Roth at its helm, Vornado has been buying real estate on the cheap since the 1980s.
And, sources say, they're working hard to fulfill their end of the bargain.
And what we understood then was we had to work hard to get back to that basic bargain, that basic deal that built this country.
The President pushed as hard as he could for a grand bargain to be balanced to include revenues, and then for a sequester to include revenues.
And it's a bargain that says if you work hard in this country, then your work should be rewarded.
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