Word: bargain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tell you is that I respect their choice to form the union," Manning said. "I am obligated to bargain with any union in good faith...
...have been here long enough," said one guard. "These are the things you bargain for. We don't want to give that back...
...York and other stock exchanges. Closed-end fund prices are governed purely by supply and demand, so they frequently trade above or below the underlying value of the stocks in the portfolios. Today the average country fund trades at a discount of 15%. Now, that's a bargain. Not since 1990 has the average discount to net asset value on country funds been so large, a reflection of investors' strong preference for U.S. stocks at the moment. But "if you can find a country you like, and a fund at a deep discount, you've got an enticing package," says...
...eventually wrote American Tabloid (1995), a crime novel that transcends the form in its imaginative breadth and depth. My Dark Places, which grew out of an article he wrote for GQ, is Ellroy's attempt to fulfill the second part of this bargain with himself, and it largely succeeds. Readers new to Ellroy may find his clipped, staccato prose disconcerting, particularly when it describes details of his mother's corpse and the procedures at her autopsy. He is also quite blunt about the sexual allure that memories of his mother--he calls her the Redhead--bring...
...book Mean Business, Dunlap called his pay a bargain for Scott, whose total market value rocketed from $2.9 billion to $9.4 billion on his watch. Others say he did little more than gut the company and dress it up for sale. But for the most part his critics aren't shareholders, the constituency he most wants to serve. Now he's on for an encore at Sunbeam, where earnings are in a two-year slide. Sunbeam's stock was tracing the earnings decline until Dunlap signed on. That day alone, Sunbeam shares jumped 50%. "It'll be a vintage Dunlap...