Word: bargain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition to benefitting the students, the program provides an opportunity for the Museum to purchase new contemporary works. "We hope to ultimately graduate some [prints] into the permanent collection. A bargain today may someday become very valuable," says Cohn. So, ten or twenty years from now when you visit the Museum, something that hung in your dorm room may be on display to the public...
...through one really bad one -- three minutes of absolute hell and then a few months thereafter of cleanup and inconvenience," says John Barber, a businessman originally from Connecticut. "Given the benefits -- the business opportunities, the weather, the life-style -- I used to think, 'That's a fair bargain.' Now I'm not so sure." Others feel helpless. "If they say my house can't be saved," said political consultant Jill Banks-Barad, whose Sherman Oaks home was damaged, "I don't know what I'll do or where...
Much of the home-shopping world still has a bargain-basement aura. Rivers, who has sold $60 million worth of clothing and jewelry on QVC, hawks everything from breadmakers and hair bows to books on faith healing on Can We Shop. She also brings on other celebrities to promote their wares: Dolly Parton appeared as one of Rivers' first guests to shill her own line of "goof-proof" Revlon cosmetics, for which the singer has also completed an upcoming infomercial. Rivers sees herself as the pioneer of a new genre combining selling with show biz. "This is entertainment...
...country and the government was visibly inept. Suppose California and Texas had seceded, foreign communists were advising how to reconstruct the U.S. government, NATO had been disbanded, all U.S. military bases abroad had been closed and batches of the armed forces' most sophisticated weapons were being sold at bargain rates to former enemies...
Casey refused, suspecting the offer was not serious. Hale, who had been indicted for fraud in a separate case, wanted Casey to give him a plea bargain; Casey offered instead a reduction in sentence if he pleaded guilty and cooperated with the government on other matters. But Hale refused the deal and will stand trial next month. Casey eventually recused herself from both the Hale and Madison cases, but most belatedly, last November. She would have trouble claiming impartiality; she had been a law student of Bill Clinton's and a volunteer in all his campaigns. Her husband works...