Word: bargain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...airline guys, if they're feeling down one day, if they're sick, you know what they do? They buy a plane. It's like an alcoholic buys a drink. Today you have a glut of planes." Icahn insists he can spruce up his fleet by leasing planes at bargain-basement prices...
DANNY'S BOY. Last month former Partridge Family star Danny Bonaduce agreed to a plea-bargain arrangement on charges that he beat and robbed Darius Barney, a Phoenix transvestite prostitute, after a sex act. Bonaduce must pay up to $3,000 in medical costs for the victim's reconstructive surgery...
...implications for society are as plain as chalk marks on a blackboard: the relatively high cost of the original program -- $5,000 a year for each preschooler -- was actually a bargain. The results at Ypsilanti are echoing louder across the country, not only in facilities for the underprivileged but also in preschools everywhere. Twenty-seven states now fund prekindergarten facilities -- a huge jump from only seven in 1979. And the early-childhood boom goes on unabated. Some 1,700 nationally accredited public programs operate in the U.S.; an additional 4,300 are actively seeking accreditation...
Maybe the U.S., like the Soviet Union, needs a little push to do the right thing. But who will offer America a Grand Bargain? The candidate is obvious: Japan. As a matter of fact, the Japanese are already subsidizing the American economy to the tune of many billions of dollars a year. One measure is the U.S. current-account deficit with Japan: $32.3 billion in 1990. That means, in essence, that the Japanese sold $32 billion more of goods and services to Americans than Americans sold to the Japanese. The excess represents a loan to the American economy, which takes...
Allison and Blackwill say Grand Bargain money sent to the Soviet Union should go for "general balance of payments support, project support for key items of infrastructure . . . and the maintenance of an adequate safety net." That's more or less what the Japanese money invested in U.S. Government bonds is already going for. It would not require instructions from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard for the Japanese to say, "Look, if you want us to keep financing your economy...