Word: bargain
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While sources confirmed the outlines of the plea bargain, the deal remains unofficial until it receives approval from a U.S. judge in Manhattan this week. Among the lingering issues was the length of the jail term that Milken, 43, would receive. Although he could draw a maximum of 30 years, the Government was expected to recommend no more than a five-year sentence. Moreover, prosecutors were said to have agreed to drop charges against Milken's brother Lowell, a former Drexel executive...
...perhaps the most Faustian bargain of all, Earth Day St. Louis has accepted $15,000 from Monsanto, one of the largest manufacturers of pesticides and herbicides in the U.S. Before it jumped on the Earth Day bandwagon, Monsanto was better known for its abandoned PCB dumps in Indiana...
...1950s baseball cards. Even then I was aware that my safety school was far better than most. So I stoically trudged off to the University of Michigan, a college that seemed majestically impervious to the damaged goods it was receiving. Michigan more than fulfilled its part of the bargain; the lingering gaps in my education (the inability to commune with head waiters in flawless French, tone-deaf ignorance of classical music, and scientific training that stopped with Mr. Wizard) are entirely my own fault. At 43 I can safely conclude that the lack of an Ivy League imprimatur has neither...
Before the hoopla subsides, Harvard students and other citizens of the earth should consider the message of Earth Day (April 26) and Earth Week (April 20-27): prosperity at the expense of posterity is no bargain. The crass commercialization of this year's Earth Day events does not detract from the importance of this message...
...average -- before recovering later in the day to post an overall 3% loss. "We knew it had to come sooner or later. Many of us just stood there blankly," said a floor dealer. Another market watcher described it as a "bottomless swamp." The market edged upward on Friday as bargain hunters poured in, but a new era of wariness had clearly arrived. THE MARKET THAT WAS DREAMING A DREAM, blared a headline in Nihon Keizai Shimbun, a financial daily...