Compromise and deadlock

stance tough stance aggressive stance

A negotiating position, particularly one unlikely to change, is a stance. A stance is often described as tough or aggres­sive.

concession compromise

veto use your veto

deadlock deadlocked

impasse loggerheads at loggerheads

Negotiators try to reach agreement by making concessions, demanding less than they demanded earlier, hoping to get concessions from the other side, thus reaching agreement through compro­mise.

If one side refuses a proposal during talks, it vetoes it, or uses its veto.

Where there is disagreement, the two sides are at loggerheads, and where there is no prospect of a change in negotiating positions, commentators talk about dead­lock, or an impasse. Talks in this state are deadlocked.

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LANGUAGE NOTE

The verbs corresponding to the nouns concession and compromise are concede and compromise. The nouns corresponding to the verbs break down and collapse are breakdown and collapse.

Yet while some club chairmen arc taking a tough stance, others are now more wary of confrontation — worried about the financial implications to the clubs themselves if suddenly there were no games.

She is either so confident of her strength that she feels she can get away with such an aggressive stance, or so committed to her underlying beliefs about Europe that she feels compelled to speak her mind regardless of the consequences.

Prince Sihanouk has put forward a compromise proposal to break the deadlock in peace talks being held by the Supreme National Council in Bangkok.

The conference is still deadlocked over the Americans' re­fusal to agree to provide extra money.

Whenever the Democrats have compromised, the White House negotiating team have said, "Thank you very much. Now let's start over and compromise what's left."

Featherstone rejected two offers from Halifax, and refused to concede any significant price concessions to Leeds.

The Latvians are confident that these talks will continue, thus avoiding the "no concessions, no talks" impasse that exists between Moscow and Vilnius.

America's decision to re-establish a dialogue with Vietnam might in the long run help resolve the issue, but meanwhile ASEAN and the United States remain at loggerheads with no compromise in sight.

One recent EC rule on air pollution would have cost Spain Ptas 300 billion to enforce, according to Spanish officials — if it had not used its veto to win a let-cut for its factories to continue burning dirty brown coal. Spain likes those bits of political un­ion that come free.

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BRINKMANSHIP

talks Where there are obstacles to agreement, and

falter discussions continue with difficulty, they fal-

founder ter. When discussions end because of dis-

break down agreement, talks break down, founder or cdl-

collapse lapse.

When negotiators behave in a way that may brinkmanship cause talks to collapse, but hope to gain ad­vantage if they continue, they may be accused of brinkmanship. scupper talks

torpedo talks If someone is accused of torpedoing or scup­pering talks, they are accused of intentionally causing them to collapse.

The Jakarta talks, faltering from the outset, would in all like­lihood have collapsed had it not been for Washington's an­nouncement on 5 September.

The talks foundered because most ministers were unable to accept a package of compensatory measures for farmers likely to be hit by proposed cuts.

A great number of speakers at the meeting made it clear that it was pointless to go on with this sort of farce. In spite of what appeared to be total breakdown, talks will continue later today.

The American delegation are speaking of imminent collapse; there is a very real danger of the talks breaking down with seri­ous consequences for the world economy.

The Malaysian Minister of International Trade Rafeta Aziz criticized Europe for toying dangerously with the world econ­omy. "I'm not sure whether some people are playing the brink­manship game so that they will try to create some crisis situa­tion, and that makes people get stirred up."

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That move has led left-wing legislators to say Shamir does not intend to negotiate but rather torpedo the talks. It has also caused his foreign minister to withdraw from the delegation.

Jacques Delors was last night accused of sabotaging thou­sands of British jobs for the sake of personal ambition. He was accused of scuppering crucial trade talks to avert a world trade war by EC negotiator Ray MacSharry.

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