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-{{a|negotiation|{{image|Casanova|png|Casanova yesterday. Just, ah, sign here, baby.}}}}Also known as [[Casanova’s advice]] or the [[credit officer’s refrain]], “[[If in doubt, stick it in]]” — a finger-post to the nearest [[negotiation oubliette]] — is nonetheless an admonition that rings daily around the cloistered spaces of every institution but is only offered, in these pages, with a generous helping of irony.
+{{a|negotiation|{{image|Casanova|png|Casanova yesterday. Just, ah, sign here, baby.}}}}Also known as [[Casanova’s advice]] or the [[credit officer’s refrain]], “[[If in doubt, stick it in]]” — a blunt finger-post to the nearest [[negotiation oubliette]] — is an admonition that rings daily around the cloistered spaces of every institution but is only offered, in these pages, with a generous helping of irony.
 “Well, it can’t hurt to ask.”
-But it ''can'' hurt to ask. Everytime you ask, a little part of your negotiation team dies.
+But it ''can'' hurt to ask. Every time you ask, a little part of your negotiation team ''dies''.
 So: better advice: ''[[murder your darlings]]''. Or, as our brethren [[legal eagle]]s would say, [[murder your darlings|subject one’s darlings, or procure that such darlings are subjected to, culpable homicide]].