Like the bill that has been kicked around in Congress for more than a decade, and which met its demise in December 2010 when five Senate Democrats effectively killed it by voting against cloture on the debate, the Republican plan would give undocumented students a path to legal status in exchange for going to college or joining the military.
Negotiations that three European states - France, Germany and Britain - hope will induce Tehran to give up its nuclear ambitions in exchange for political, economic and technological concessions are going nowhere.
In particular, the White House expects a deal on the minimum wage, with Republicans going along with a raise in exchange for Democratic support for some small-business tax breaks.
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Clearly, nobody is going to get jazzed into relinquishing loopholes in exchange for a shaving of the corporate tax rate and a skyward march in income-tax rates.
The best policy going forward is not to offer new inducements in exchange for more promises of the kind Kim Jong Il always broke.
In exchange for a view of Sandusky Bay on Lake Erie, residents were going to get contaminated acreage inland that looked out on a T.
"We are not going to discuss the details, releasing or not releasing of criminals in exchange for the hostages, " said Humayun Hamidzada, spokesman for President Hamid Karzai.
With Republicans in control of the House, conservatives must develop a list of workable reforms to Obamacare that they can pursue in exchange for deals with the Democrats on debt ceiling hikes and the litany of thorny budget deals going forward.
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With Facebook alone claiming nearly 500 million daily active users more than 60 times the eight million people who fly each day KLM and others are betting that many of them would be willing to share their profiles in exchange, say, for a chance to meet someone with a common interest or who might be going to the same event.
Zynga, like a lot of other Silicon Valley startups going through hiring sprees, enticed new employees with reams of valuable stock options in exchange for grueling hours.
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Behind the scenes, it is widely assumed that bargaining is going on, with the SCAF offering to accept Mr Morsi's win in exchange for reducing his and the Brothers' role in shaping the constitution.
Instead, thanks to the professional arms controllers, the United States is going to help perpetuate Kim Jong-Il's hold on power, in exchange for his shutting down an obsolescent reactor and his promises to keep talking, probably endlessly and certainly inconclusively, about his growing nuclear weapons stockpile.
For a sense of what was going on at the New York Stock Exchange, I checked in throughout the day with trader Ted Wessberg.
Indian defense officials said the small arms firing had been going on for about six hours in the Akhnoor sector, but stressed that it was an exchange that was not uncommon along the tense control line.
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