But the most important rule of salary negotiation is the one Hopkinson notes in another chapter: The candidate should not be the first to name a number.

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It is left to Mr Motion, writing in his own voice, to bring out his subject's darker side in the scholarly notes which follow each chapter.

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The Beijing News notes that progress on environmental protection was an entire chapter for the first time in the white paper.

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