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To address the conundrum, a Tuesday tete-a-tete between Chancellor Merkel and President Sarkozy was supposed to move things further along, beyond what's looked like, so far, as a "rob Peter to pay Paul" approach.

Lydia Fisher: From "Too Big to Fail" Banks to "Too Big to Default" Nations to What's Next? Lydia Fisher 2011

The tete-a-tete, yielded talk about procuring a Euro Chief and more collaboration on fiscal discipline.

Lydia Fisher: From "Too Big to Fail" Banks to "Too Big to Default" Nations to What's Next? Lydia Fisher 2011

Now they must decide if there will be another tete-a-tete and just what that might signal.

GOP/Tea Party Blind Date Ends Tuesday 2010

To address the conundrum, a Tuesday tete-a-tete between Chancellor Merkel and President Sarkozy was supposed to move things further along, beyond what's looked like, so far, as a "rob Peter to pay Paul" approach.

Lydia Fisher: From "Too Big to Fail" Banks to "Too Big to Default" Nations to What's Next? Lydia Fisher 2011

But could a tete-a-tete with a witty writer, known for punching up scripts, loosen her up?

Nora Ephron tries to draw out Nancy Pelosi at Fortune's "Most Powerful Women Summit" The Reliable Source 2010

By doing so, he would initiate an entomological tete-a-tete between the wasps and the emerald ash borer, a green-winged, torpedo-shaped beetle that looks at the gleaming shaft of wood in Alex Rodriguez's hands and sees a scrumptious meal for its children.

The Bugs Rescuing the Baseball Bats Mike Sielski 2011

Since Sarney's last tete-a-tete with the Americans, tensions had mounted in the Essequibo region, with Guyana accusing Venezuela of militarily invading its territory to stave off gold mining operations.

Nikolas Kozloff: WikiLeaks: Washington and Brasilia Monitoring Chávez in the Caribbean Nikolas Kozloff 2011

Since Sarney's last tete-a-tete with the Americans, tensions had mounted in the Essequibo region, with Guyana accusing Venezuela of militarily invading its territory to stave off gold mining operations.

Nikolas Kozloff: WikiLeaks: Washington and Brasilia Monitoring Chávez in the Caribbean Nikolas Kozloff 2011

Unlike the Bush era, when meetings such as the Brownfield-Izarra tete-a-tete ended in failure, the political climate seemed much improved during the first months of the incoming Obama administration.

Nikolas Kozloff: Caracas Cables: U.S.-Venezuela Journalist Exchange; Charitable View of Obama, Cash Seizure at Venezuelan Airport Nikolas Kozloff 2011

That time at least, Tuck was referring to Burress, before the tete-a-tete with Coughlin.

Focus Shifts to Umenyiora, Burress Aditi Kinkhabwala 2011