... border with China. Paik Hak-soon, an analyst at the Sejong Institute think tank, predicted they would be used as bargaining chips, with the North likely "to try to link them to the nuclear and missile talks." Iran, which also has a contentious ...

... regulation was put in place by the Bush administration in 2005. Easing trade rules means the United States loses a bargaining chip with a new government once the Fidel Castro era ends in Cuba, said Jaime Suchlicki, director of the Institute for ...

... still trying to decide how to proceed. Options included quitting immediately, or waiting to use resignation as a bargaining chip with federal prosecutors to avoid indictment. Democrats privately floated another option, telling The Associated ...

... position as a term of a plea bargain," Gwatney said. "In a sense, an individual is using elected office as a bargaining chip in terms of a criminal charge, and that's really what we're talking about." Dwayne Dobbins did not return messages ...

... And based on Stewart's own past negotiating, many believe his desire to test the market is nothing more than a bargaining chip to use with JGR. He used similar tactics during extension talks in 2003, when he leveraged an offer from owner Chip ...

... imposed against a foreign government. "America can no longer afford to use food and medicine as foreign-policy bargaining chips," Lincoln said. "We must not let our international objectives cloud our common sense about what's best for ...

... so lopsided and crazy that he refused to vote for it. He could not understand why Israel was giving away its only bargaining chip -- the West Bank -- before the bargaining. Netanyahu had similar misgivings. He tried to minimize the damage by ...

... programs and foreign aid. Clinton signed the Pentagon measure on Monday after considering vetoing it to make it a bargaining chip in his quest to win more money from Republicans. The president complained that the bill financed projects the Pentagon ...

... their children -- that he was either demanding them so he wouldn't have to pay child support, or using them as a bargaining chip. To quote "Dorothy in Maine": "I wonder what he'd do if you said, 'Go ahead and take the kids.' His prospective ...

... his seat while maintaining his innocence. Once convicted, time became Wilson's enemy. Using resignation as a bargaining chip seemed implausible by week's end. The one thing that almost everyone rendering opinions agreed on was that Wilson ...