She is a totally fair, good negotiator, good talker with other people, but she's no different from anybody else.

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"He is a man who will not spook Western investors because he is a good negotiator who has good external relations, " said Russian political analyst Igor Bunin.

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When he has decided what his objective is, normally with a food orientation, but also for possession of a chair, cushion or the window to be opened in the car, he, like any good negotiator from the Bolshevik school, simply wears you down by never going away and reminding you continually of his presence.

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More on why this state of fearless authenticity separates the good from the great negotiator in my next post.

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Mr Powell was a key government negotiator during the Good Friday Agreement of 1998.

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Characterised as a dispassionate strategist, Mr McGuinness became Sinn Fein's chief negotiator in the Good Friday Agreement talks.

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He is both a savvy media operator, and a shrewd negotiator - two attributes his supporters say he is using to good effect in the BA dispute.

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"This is not a failure, today is success deferred and deferred by not very long, " said the chief UK negotiator, Jo Adamson, who called the draft a "good, strong treaty".

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Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein's chief negotiator, protested correctly that the new laws conflicted with the Good Friday agreement, and argued that political persuasion, rather than repression, was the best way to isolate and stop dissident republicans.

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Mike Rowse, Hong Kong's chief negotiator and its newly appointed commissioner for tourism, says there is a good reason for this.

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