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This is especially true in the complicated pas de deux of work e-mails -- you can have a long volley to figure something out (a plan, a meeting, a detail, whatever), or you can pick up the phone and just hash it out.

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So instead of shaking our collective heads in disgust, with acid-in-tongue comments like players are too dumb to understand it, or owners are too greedy to share it, we should simply recognize that although it would be better to sit at the kitchen table and hash it out like a honest principled family, this is just a day in the life of transactional law.

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Rodriguez, the director of Plaza Publica, said Saturday's meeting will be a promising start to the debate, even if it takes years to hash out the details.

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It's not often you order plantain hash with fried ceviche and come out smiling.

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In finance, standards can take years to define as working groups from banks, securities firms and depositories meet repeatedly to hash out what needs to be in a message and ways to make it machine-readable so the communication can be handled by computers with straight-through processing (STP) and not require any expensive, time-consuming and error-inducing human intervention.

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And it can be more efficient to get everyone into the same room together to hash out problems.

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Drogba should have made it five himself minutes later but the Ivory Coast striker made a hash of a stretching finish from six yards out following a cross from substitute Patrick Van Aanholt.

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It makes it nearly impossible for people who have legitimate but bridgeable differences to sit down at the same table and hash things out.

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