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A married couple drove down a country road for several miles, not saying a word.

An earlier discussion had led to an argument, and they both sat, steaming at an impasse.

He gripped the steering wheel right as she stared out the window. As they passed a farm, the wife notices several cows and a bull on a hillside pasture, and couldn’t help but break the silence as she poi...

Just another round of Union negotiations . .

Negotiations between union members and their employer were at an impasse. The union denied that their workers were flagrantly abusing their contract’s sick-leave provisions.

One morning at the bargaining table, the company’s chief negotiator held aloft the morning edition of the newspaper, “T...

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