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As often happens in campaigns, Brown suffered an embarrassing defection last month, when writer Walter Kirn quit and told the press he had been saddled with "celebrity profile assignments."
T > R > S > P), one enters a new game, "chicken" (also called the "snowdrift" or "hawk-dove" game), in which one no longer necessarily expects mutual defection [ 4 ] . Indeed, if R > T and S > P, then the game becomes "mutualism," in which players are expected to cooperate all the time, regardless of what the opponent does [ 7 ] .
Republican congressional leaders reportedly hit the roof over the governors' defection and, under that pressure, they fudged their stand somewhat.
The terrific Times biz-section story on the ad industry's all-too-sudden, profit-motivated defection to the anti-smoking camp quotes an advertising executive named Alex Bogusky.
For example, as soon as the sucker's payoff exceeds the punishment for mutual defection (S > P) and everything else stays the same (i.e.