The conditions meant it was a day for keeping the ball on the deck, which ought to have suited two sides whose passing football has been much praised in the first quarter of the season.
Despite meeting with a mediator for the better part of the last two weeks, reports have indicated the two sides are nowhere near reaching an agreement.
Human catastrophes have forced the two sides to get together.
Rather than keep their content restricted to their respective Web sites, which have generated only a tiny fraction of the traffic headed for YouTube, the two sides have opted instead to sign distribution agreements with outside partners to push their content out to major portal sites.
The two sides have been in negotiations for a compromise, but neither reported much progress.
The two sides have been involved in a long-running dispute over pay, jobs and working conditions.
The two sides have agreed to discuss the definition of time-out at the Washington meeting.
The two sides have reasons of their own for talking up the alliance's continued value.
The two sides have seemed on the brink of a fully blown trade war.
As some sober-minded observers noted, the two sides have slow-danced together before, though more warily.
The two sides have made no breakthrough, but have at least agreed to meet again soon.
It was the first time the two sides have exchanged fire since the 1973 Middle East war.
The two sides have not reached a deal, with ASLEF now drivers now declining to work extra shifts.
The arrangement has not taken effect as the two sides have argued over who should control which ministries.
The two sides have failed to reach an agreement to avert mandatory, across-the-board spending cuts that took effect Friday.
In some similar wars the two sides have agreed to create corridors for aid to reach those in need.
But as yet, the two sides have not discussed the major issues involved.
But this year, even when the two sides have been cajoled to the table, they used it only for thumping.
The two sides have begun making the case that their opponent's record isn't just inadequate but damaging to U.S. workers.
Direct talks on a range of disputed issues, including Kashmir, are to be held next month, the two sides have said.
The two sides have met seven times over the past three season and Fallon knows what to expect from the game.
The two sides have also been mending fences in more literal ways.
Exchanges between the two sides have been booming for over 20 years.
The two sides have been attempting to improve ties through peace talks, and they have agreed to increase trade and ease travel curbs.
The two sides have clashed over subscriber fees and whether the channel should be part of subscribers' basic or premium packages, among other items.
It is the third successive year that the two sides have met in the Grand Final, with Leeds having won the previous two meetings.
In the strongest hint yet, Russian Defense Secretary Sergei Ivanov said yesterday that the two sides have made "clear progress" in their Treaty discussions.
As the convention made clear, the two sides have drawn quite different conclusions from Mr Clinton's success, and want different campaigns as a result.
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