(1) Shoppers got into a scrum round the bargain counter.

(2) Ownership of the land gives us a strong bargaining counter.

(3) Would keep it as her final bargaining counter.

(4) Votes can be used as bargaining counters for future needs.

(5) Our missiles will be a useful bargaining counter in our negotiations with the Russians, ie may be given up in exchange for concessions.

(6) The new missiles will be useful as a bargaining counter in the arms control talks.

(7) Even the demand for independence might be advanced as primarily a bargaining counter.

(8) On this basis Polaris, and even Trident, could be retained as at least a bargaining counter.

(9) If the government did what Clinton did, it would force a showdown with the pan-democrats using the citizenry as its bargaining counter.

(10) We urge that both sides put the public interest first in any event. In no circumstances should either use it as a bargaining counter.