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every point. In this case, it took nearly nine months to get the ne-
gotiations going again, and during that time the government made
operations difficult for the company. Ultimately, the two sides did
renegotiate the mining concession.
Don’t Sin Against the Bureaucracy
African government officials are by no means the only ones to look
unkindly upon challenges to their authority. You can find similar
sensitivities throughout all governments. In 2001, the FDA was
dissatisfied with certain aspects of Shering-Plough’s manufacturing
operations of its asthma inhalers and threatened to withhold ap-
proval of the company’s new blockbuster ...