"This is not a game of chicken with Mother Nature, " Chertoff told reporters Thursday in Washington.
The eurogroup has played its latest move in what many have called a game of chicken.
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For months, Democrats and Republicans have been playing a game of chicken over AMT relief.
One engaged the sub in a game of chicken, only to veer off at the last minute.
That will turn each crisis into a game of chicken as bondholders sell before they get penalised.
But German demands for penalties and holding ECB bailouts hostage is a game of chicken with worldwide implications.
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For professional money managers, the market has degenerated into a game of chicken.
As Bob Reischauer, a former head of the Congressional Budget Office, puts it, both sides are indulging in a game of chicken.
This would be far more productive than playing a game of Chicken with Obama as some of my fellow Tea Partiers would like.
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The politicians played a game of chicken and the bankers blinked.
The impasse over debt degenerates into a game of chicken.
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And these days, Argentine wineries with a taste for risk seem to be engaged in a game of chicken: You're going to try to ripen grapes (and dodge hail) at that crazy altitude?
He is playing a daring game of chicken on Wall Street--and winning--because he has less to lose.
Lawmakers are wringing their hands with forecasts of doom and gloom, all the while playing a game of political chicken.
So far BofA has refused to pay up, locking the two companies in a dangerous game of chicken that could cost BofA billions.
But shoppers have been conditioned to shop only for deals, and David Bassuk, head of the global retail practice at consulting firm AlixPartners, said the next few weeks could set up a "game of chicken, " with consumers waiting to see if retailers' prices will come down before buying.
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So now they are holed up in another state playing a high stakes game of chicken over which side will cave first.
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And last summer President Obama, House Speaker Boehner, and their respective constituents played a very public game of chicken in regard to the U.S. borrowing limit.
Despite all the usual guff about the USA being "a grand experiment in compromise", this is now a rather nasty game of chicken, and no-one wants to look yellow to their own political base.
The tale of the two financial institution is dense, convoluted and, until now, in dispute. (See: MBIA, BofA In A Billion-Dollar Game Of Chicken.) MBIA, once primarily just a municipal bond insurer, waded into the risky MBS space and came away badly damaged.
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In a high-stakes game of chicken, says David Cummings, the player with the most to lose usually loses.
In 2009, the U.S. Navy accused Chinese sailors of harassing one of its ocean floor mapping vessels in a game of high-seas chicken.
It would be nice to think that the game of chicken was just a childhood phenomenon.
Late Sunday night, the game of chicken had shifted to whether a short-term extension of the debt ceiling -- which Obama had previously ruled out in an attempt to get the parties to focus on a long-term plan -- would be passed.
Indeed, the only politician involved in this game of political chicken who appears to have a reason to actually put the public before politics would be the President not because he is above playing the game, but because he no longer has to run for political office.
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