Negotiation is the art of asking for what you want and being willing to make concessions and adjustments in order to achieve the desired result.

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The Mets may or may not sign Michael Bourn, but in their dealings with the center fielder, they've at least given baseball something new: the vaguely public contract negotiation as impenetrable art, along the lines of language poetry.

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