THE 4 MILLION OUNCE BET, page-3499

Giving the gift may seem like the only plausible option at the time, so you dont stick your neck out wheras in reality you hate the idea. In this case foreign investment maybe. Then down the track you draw things out and out and out hoping the interloper will retire from the set or indeed come up with an incentive. I dont know what is in their minds but it is increasingly likely for people to start thinking of less than honourable intent. That is one reason for putting in timelines in the first place ie to avoid such perceptions. I am not promoting that in this circumstance I am putting forward a hypothetical to avoid taking the obvious as fact, where it may not be.