The run-up in Bear Stearns shares has set the stage for a high-stakes game of brinksmanship, with angry investors in one corner and J. 据一位参与交易的人士说:如果有人坐地起价,我估计出价可能会抬高;
I see a lot more brinksmanship. I think it could get very, very ugly. And there's-we might yet test that theory that it's going to take the markets freaking out again before they come up with another deal.
Brinkmanship (also brinksmanship) is the practice of trying to achieve an advantageous outcome by pushing dangerous events to the brink of active conflict. It occurs in international politics, foreign policy, labour relations, and (in contemporary settings) military strategy involving the threat of nuclear weapons, and high-stakes litigation.