That irreducible tension led Huffington to pursue a sale and push her partners to go along.
But some people use gift-giving as an occasion to push their partners to try new things or to improve their tastes.
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.
They must think they are living in a strange world, in which they can push costs on to business partners with no consequence.
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She reiterated that the United States and its partners in the talks would push a "package of incentives and opportunities, including normalizing relations" between Washington and Pyongyang.
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But if past Windows launches are any guide, Microsoft will help its cause by spending hundreds of millions of dollars on high-profile TV ads, viral whisper campaigns and "co-marketing" money for its PC hardware partners and the resellers who push Microsoft software to big corporations.
And in the meantime, it will have given the Athens government more leverage in negotiations with other eurozone partners: "don't push us too far, because we've got a vote we all need to win".
No-one should be surprised to hear the abolition of ID cards is also seen as a notable success, albeit one the Lib Dems did not have to push too hard to get on the statute book as their Conservative partners were equally committed to getting rid of them.
Victor Cheng, a former McKinsey consultant who now advises aspiring management consultants, recalls a push in the mid-1990s to increase the firm's female partners.
This has helped to push the real up to a value of 100 against the currencies of its trading partners, compared with 68 at a moment of exaggerated weakness back in 2001.
As part of that push, it has signed a series of swap deals with some of its key trading partners.
Windows Phone 7.5 is stable, it works well, so why go to all the hassle of reworking the operating system push it through network qualification, and then do a worldwide roll-out with hardware partners and multiple devices.
Most of the European partners figure there is no point in opposing the U.S. now that the push has gone this far and Clinton seems unyielding on it.
Marks, Managing Partner at High Rock Partners, he told me we are heading into a period, where there will be a big push for transactions to close before the end of the year especially since deal activity was muted during the first two quarters of 2010.
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