After three attempts we were both stressed - and it's expensive - so we had to sit down and decide where to go from there.

在尝试了3次以后我们两都开始有压力-而且费用昂贵-所以我们不得不停下来考虑怎样解决问题。

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And so we are working to try to strengthen the ability of both parties to sit down across the table and to begin serious negotiations.

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But he also understands that there needs to be a conversation about our long-term debt, and that needs to be, as he said, an adult conversation where reasonable people from both parties sit down and talk about this major challenge that we face and ways to deal with it.

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We get free food, excellent information, both on paper and through terminals at our workstations, badges that grant us access to the clubhouse (we can sit down and eat there, too, if we choose) and a chance through an annual lottery to play the course on the Monday after the Masters.

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