But partnership President Mara Brazer said attendees will get down to brass tacks to decide what public policies are most important : solving the parking problem or getting tax breaks, for example.
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But when push comes to shove, when we get down to brass tacks, when all of the cliches are wiped away it becomes clear where the credit lies for this economic wonder.
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New Zealand's prime minister, Helen Clark, was all set to get down to brass tacks with the presumptive winner, mentioning the new round of world trade talks in her congratulatory note to Bush.
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In fact, the AMEX-Nasdaq-Philly combination provided the wake-up call for Montgomery Street to get down to brass tacks with LaSalle Street, the heart and soul of Chicago's financial district in the south Loop.
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In colloquial English, the phrase to " get down to brass tacks " is an idiom that means to focus on essential details, such as measuring out the precise amount of an item for sale.
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IT is a time for due diligence now as finance companies get down to brass tacks in digesting the full impact of the recent merger exercise which is viewed as necessary for the country's financial well-being.
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He continually seeks to connect editors like Masem or myself with various socks, zombies, and IPs, but when it gets down to brass tacks, he cannot substantiate any fault with the conduct or contributions of experienced editors.
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You open the paper, skipping, of course, the front page, the sports section and the comics so that you can get down to brass tacks _ which, for the purposes of this column, IS this column, so that I can tell you this:
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"If you get down to brass tacks, I think people in both parties of good faith, what they want is a society where everybody who needs it gets a hand up, everybody's got a fair chance, but where unfair criteria don't deprive the deserving, " to the benefit of the undeserving.
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CNN would also be free to get down to brass tacks with IBM and AT & T, both of which have discussed with CNN an alliance that would be similar to NBC-Microsoft . And Johnson reiterated his boss Turner's long-term goal of combining with the news division of a major broadcast network . ( NBC and Fox, obviously, are spoken for .)
