In 2013 alone, the federal government couldn't evade a stupid, counterproductive budget sequester, a government shutdown, and brinksmanship with the debt ceiling.
The first is with the kind of brinksmanship budgetary politics that has now become normative.
The negotiations can lead to brinksmanship and bad blood.
European integration has always depended upon a certain kind of historical brinksmanship.
The process happend over a year of high drama, brinksmanship, anti-trust accusations, lawsuits -- some threatened and one real -- to forge a compromise between the unsecured and secured creditors.
There is usually financial brinksmanship.
And let's do it without the brinksmanship that stresses consumers and scares off investors.
