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The consensus is that the big sticking point that the Serbs reject and the Albanians insist on is the proposed presence on the ground of a NATO peacekeeping force of 30,000.
Written details were not available at press time (and USAT notes that U.S. officials aren't sure that Annan could speak frankly about it to anyone while he remained in Iraq where phone lines are not secure), but the dailies are reporting that Hussein has agreed to open his presidential palaces to U.N. weapons inspectors--the sticking point that has brought the U.S. to the brink of warfare.
The starting point for panic theory is the observation that there is a tension between the desire of individuals for flexibility--the ability to spend whenever they feel like it--and the economic payoff to commitment, to sticking with long-term projects until they are finished.
Hughes also has a bad track record: In 1969 Wevill killed herself and her 2-year-old daughter, by sticking their heads in a gas oven.
Movement within the hierarchy depends on sticking to the rules of a game in which grypserka figures prominently.