But this time they need to go beyond the simple declaration of a take-it-or-leave-it final deal.
That could give consumers the take-it-or-leave-it choice of going all Sony or nothing.
Wyeth said it's still assessing the response to its latest settlement offer, which it originally portrayed as a take-it-or-leave-it proposal.
This shoulder-shrugging, take-it-or-leave-it approach has more gravitas than the teenage "whatever".
Tenants are now assigned to council housing on a take-it-or-leave-it basis.
Before Christmas Wasps owner Steve Hayes offered take-it-or-leave-it deals to 19 members of his squad who are out of contract at the end of this season.
Such a practice would avoid the situation in which the Senate found itself on the CTBT, namely a take-it-or-leave-it position, either rubber-stamp or reject the accord outright.
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Few schools present a take-it-or-leave it package, and students, especially those with stratospheric test scores, may be able to squeeze a few more bucks out of the school.
It's true that the company is careful to offer multiple configurations and different price points, but you still need to have a take-it-or-leave it attitude when it comes to specs.
This idea that the euro is a take-it-or-leave-it option, an arrangement of convenience rather than a fixed and irrevocable union, has been a staple for European leaders over the past few years.
Their complaint: that pharmacy benefit managers, which design health plans for companies and insurers, offer retailers a take-it-or-leave-it contract that makes it impossible for them to compete on drug prices with mail-order houses.
Yet with Slovakia hoping to win an invitation to EMU in April-May this year, the take-it-or-leave-it approach to the euro-zone membership in east-central Europe may give way to a much greater sense of urgency.
For decades, cable-TV was basically a take-it-or-leave-it proposition.
"What I am not open to is accepting a take-it-or-leave-it offer which would not allow us access to the information we need, would not even provide for a transcript and would prevent us from seeking additional information in the future, " Conyers said.
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Less easy to justify are Daft's take-it-or-leave-it orders requiring longtime employees to move to far-off Detroit or Cincinnati as part of his "Think local, act local" plan, designed to push more authority over marketing, advertising and pricing down to the regional level.
Sellers can now choose to skip the auction process entirely--a take-it-or-leave-it choice--that's great for the quick sale of items like Palm handhelds, but a disadvantage for someone selling, say, a used Louis Vuitton bag that might draw many bidders who knock up the price.
In return, Tony Blair has extracted a promise from Guy Verhofstadt, his Belgian counterpart, that when the convention reports in 2003 or 2004 it will not come up with a take-it-or-leave-it blueprint, but will instead offer a series of options for national leaders to consider.
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Ala carte so that TV customers get to choose channel by channel which ones they want, the typical economist argument goes, has got to be better than the bundling where you mix all the channels together and a person has to make a take-it-or-leave-it decision about the whole bunch.
He and President George Bush may now find it difficult to obtain trade-promotion authority, formerly known as fast-track, from Congress: this enables the American team to work towards a deal and put it to Congress on a take-it-or-leave-it basis, rather than enabling the legislators on Capitol Hill to unpick it line-by-line.
Hence, he says, his take-it-or-leave-it offer in September to PAL's three unions: a 20% employee stake in the company plus three seats on the 15-member board - in exchange for a commitment not to strike for 10 years and cuts in employee benefits that would add up to half of take-home pay.
It did, as well, take -- it did, as well, take two weeks or so for the whole idea of there being a riot out there about this tape to come out.
And it will take everyone -- it will take a tremendous amount of effort.
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"It is hard to take in - it is me getting the medal, but I could not have done it without the crew, " she said.
It's hard to fathom that it's taken this long, but hey, we'll take it -- unfortunately, it's up to each carrier to decide when they're going to deploy BIS upgrades, so your mileage may vary on the wait time.
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It's even small enough to fit in your laptop bag - if you want to take it with you - and we've made it very easy to do that.
There are obviously concerns I think both in the House and the Senate about some aspects of this, and once it does we'll take -- we'll evaluate it.
Who can forget the story of the garbage barge sailing the coastline and waterways of the United States looking in vain for someone to take it, bury it or use it for landfill -- anything that would take it off the hands of a New York City overwhelmed by waste.
So it would be a mistake to take this, divide it -- to take the expenditures, divide them by the number of jobs and think you have cost per job.
Wherever this leads in the future - and it will take that Third Generation to get there - it will surely lead to survival.
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