Word: bargain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...patient. Fourth, buying health care is not like buying a cantaloupe: it is hard for any lay person to know which purchases make sense and at what cost. Fifth, even intelligent, well-informed people will never be tough shoppers when their health is at stake. Who is going to bargain with a brain surgeon...
...gave them copies of the notorious Unabomber's 35,000-word screed against technology, the same document the terrorist mailed on June 24 to the New York Times, the Washington Post and Penthouse (which had previously offered to publish it). Since then, both papers have been fretting over the bargain the Unabomber proposed: publish the tract in toto within three months--and promise to make space available afterward when requested--and he will stop sending the lethal package bombs that have killed three and wounded 23 over the past 17 years. Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione, meanwhile, took out a whiny...
Baseball's 73-year-old exemption from federal antitrust legislation was placed in jeopardy when the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 9 to 8 on a bill to repeal it. The baseball players' union says the measure, which still requires the approval of both houses, would force owners to bargain in good faith by allowing players the lawsuit option currently available in other professional sports...
...first met John as a graduate student 18 years ago," Cuno continued. "As he did with many students, he sought me out, introduced himself and took me to lunch. He loved meeting students and talking with us about our hopes and aspirations. And in the bargain he instilled in us a reallove of the institution, both of the Art Museumsand of Harvard...
...Balkan peace process, a reflection of his conviction that the Europeans either lack the leadership clout or have too many conflicting interests in the former Yugoslavia to impose a settlement, and that the U.N. is too weak to do so. Can he deliver on his part of any bargain? Possibly, but he will need time to bring the Bosnian Serbs into line and convince Serbs in general that he is not selling out their cause. "Like it or not, there's nothing else out there," says an insider in Belgrade. "Nothing will happen unless the U.S. and Serbia are involved...