Word: bargain
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...already shrunk about 15% in the past three years. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir has proposed a regional limitation on "nonconventional" weapons -- presumably meaning chemical and biological -- as a confidence-building measure between Israel and the Arab states. But so long as he gives no sign that Israel would bargain away its nuclear arsenal, Arab nations are unlikely to agree...
...contains the most gratuitous descriptions of sadistic murder and mayhem ever contained in a general trade novel. Simon & Schuster decided to surrender a $300,000 advance to Ellis and not publish his book after staff protests and press stories threatened risks greater than anticipated rewards. Snapped up at a bargain price by Random House for its Vintage division, the manuscript has undergone the editorial equivalent of liposuction. It is now leaner, meaner but not better. In fact, it is worse because the disgusting parts are easier to find. No plot or characterization has been inserted to mar the originality...
...Real Bargain...
Armed with virtually ironclad evidence, a Florida grand jury indicted B.C.C.I. for money laundering in 1988. Clifford hired a high-powered criminal lawyer to defend the bank. Despite overwhelming evidence, the government offered B.C.C.I. a plea bargain. The bank thus avoided a trial in which prosecutors planned to present evidence that laundering drug money was an approved policy of the global titan...
...advertising had scarcely budged sales. Profits were way down. The Christmas selling season was the worst in 15 years. One piece of news especially seemed to mock the setting's regal grandeur. Sears, officially, is no longer America's largest retailer. The new king: Wal-Mart, a onetime backwoods bargain barn that, according to late figures, has pulled past Sears in North American sales. K mart, advancing steadily but less spectacularly, edged up just behind Sears, leaving the former leader an uncertain...