And why do it if you're not going to play hardball now and then?
Proctor was negotiating the purchase of a house last year, his father pushed him to play hardball.
With an election year coming, it is unlikely the Democrats are going to play hardball with corporate donors.
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If you want to play hardball with exams, this case shows you how.
Even if you're ready to play hardball, warding off hackers is expensive.
It's a tough, kind of rock 'em and sock 'em ruckus place where you have to learn how to play hardball politics to survive.
Klein is in no danger of running out of paper to write his appellate briefs, but it showed that Microsoft was ready to play hardball.
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Some diplomats in Manila now fear that if China continues to play hardball over the Spratlys, the dispute risks becoming an issue in next year's Philippine presidential elections.
Until they started to play hardball in this way, Mr Obama had been deplorably insouciant about the medium-term picture, repeatedly failing in his budgets and his state-of-the-union speeches to offer any path to a sustainable deficit.
The combination of those key factors made trading Revis all but inevitable, especially in light of his willingness to play hardball in previous negotiations with the Jets and their unwillingness to keep him at too high a cost.
More importantly, however, this will put all others who are attempting to cash-in on notice that Johnny Football is willing to play Johnny Hardball, taking his efforts from the gridiron to the courtroom.
In the first days of the antitrust trial, the company's lead lawyer used the rise of Linux as one reason Microsoft must play hardball to survive.
But recently Mr Bush seems to have forgotten that you can't play hardball during elections and then revert to softball the rest of the time.
The next time they fall into a disagreement with China, they have to wonder, will China play hardball and cut them off from vital resources?
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