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Here is what will keep pro basketball real: all the players who are not all-stars, who are not known by a single name or nickname but who believe that they are as good as those guys and who aren't going to back-down from any challenge, who are going to work all summer and before and after games because they don't understand why their picture isn't the face of their team.

Larry Strauss: Is the Star System Ruining the NBA? I Don't Think So. Larry Strauss 2011

Here is what will keep pro basketball real: all the players who are not all-stars, who are not known by a single name or nickname but who believe that they are as good as those guys and who aren't going to back-down from any challenge, who are going to work all summer and before and after games because they don't understand why their picture isn't the face of their team.

Larry Strauss: Is the Star System Ruining the NBA? I Don't Think So. Larry Strauss 2011

This government back-down is the latest indication of Mr. Morales's declining ability to mobilize public support for his economic agenda even among the poorest sectors of society, who strongly supported him in two elections.

Bolivian Miners Stop Nationalization Plans Martin Arostegui 2011

Here is what will keep pro basketball real: all the players who are not all-stars, who are not known by a single name or nickname but who believe that they are as good as those guys and who aren't going to back-down from any challenge, who are going to work all summer and before and after games because they don't understand why their picture isn't the face of their team.

Larry Strauss: Is the Star System Ruining the NBA? I Don't Think So. Larry Strauss 2011

Where is your apology or back-down for having attacked Martin or Dhogaza over their attempt to educate you?

Over reach EliRabett 2010

Thursday's lightning-speed back-down from Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.) -- I've independently confirmed that he was told by GOP leadership to reverse his "apology" to BP or lose his ranking member status on the House energy committee -- has not quieted down conservatives who are angry about the administration's handling of BP and don't have to face voters.

Limbaugh defends Barton's 'shakedown' comment 2010

"Wayne Swan is the architect of this tax and he has been virulently opposed to any compromise, so it would be a big back-down for him personally," said

Australia's Gillard Promises Quick Election 2010

Mr. Rudd was forced out by mutiny in his own Labor Party in a move seen by many as clearing the way for potential back-down on the controversial mining "super profits" tax.

Euro Benefits From U.S. Data 2010

It will be forgotten that the Dems wanted a measured back-down from war, it will be remembered that the original Republican ideal of "win, win, win" was undermined by Dem trickery, causing horrible death in Iraq and American failure

Novak: GOPers See "No Alternative" Heading Into 2008 Except Troop Withdrawal 2009

No, really, this time they mean it, although presumably they reserve the right to make a humiliating back-down by teatime.

Sean Penn Doesn’t Want To Divorce His Wife Any More 2009