In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the most precious of assets, although it is not entered in the balance sheet.

Flattery is the infantry of negotiation.

Power in a corporation becomes residual and dwells in the background. It is the ability to exercise nice matters of judgment.

A written agreement will guarantee that the prosecutor will ask the court to give credit, give a discount, reduce the sentence because of the cooperation. For the first time that will be enforceable in this sense: that if the person promises to cooperate and the court sentences on that basis and they don't cooperate, you can go back to court and get the sentence reviewed.

Most of our projections, our business plans were based on a four- or five-year agreement that we understood to exist with the Iowa Lottery.

This transaction eliminates the most significant single long-dated position remaining in our trading business and our only tolling agreement.