<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div apple-content-edited="true">Hi John</div>
<br><div><div>On Oct 27, 2013, at 8:39 PM, John Curran <<a href="mailto:jcurran@istaff.org">jcurran@istaff.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">On Oct 26, 2013, at 1:13 AM, William Drake <<a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch">william.drake@uzh.ch</a>> wrote:<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="orphans: auto; widows: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><font>...</font></div><div style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The construct that there are opposing groups with fixed and antagonistic positions and this is all a matter of bargaining and concessions was not a shared reality and starting point, so he was a little puzzled. But he's getting clued in.</div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Bill - </div><div> </div><div> For those of us who are fairly new to this space, could you elaborate some </div><div> on the various "<span style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">opposing groups with fixed and antagonistic positions"?</span></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">It's not my construct, so I'm not the best person to explain it. Anyway I'd think you could infer it from recent discussions here about 'takeovers' etc.</div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">Bill </div></div></body></html>