He might as well have been following the negotiation game plan laid out by Harvard Program on Negotiation gurus Fisher and Shapiro.

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To take the metaphor of negotiation or combat as a game even further, if possible one should not only change the game board, but change the game.

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But going back to 2000, the above statement uses the term "strictly limited" for the import of game consoles, meaning there's still space for negotiation.

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