Word: bargained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wish the airlines would abolish all bargain fares. They could then lower the exorbitant regular fares to more reasonable levels, thus sparing themselves the ill will of disgruntled would-be passengers. Margaret Piton Montreal...
...once almighty dollar, which has sunk 7% against the yen and 10.5% against the Swiss franc since July. Against gold, which is being feverishly traded in major markets, the dollar has slumped about 12% in the same period. The result has been to make the U.S. a bargain hunter's paradise for even middle-class foreigners. More than 20 million foreign tourists are expected to visit the U.S. this year, up at least 8% from last year...
...scattered jurisdictions around the country, other prosecutors and judges have also tried to reduce deal making. Results are mixed; Boulder, Colo., for instance, reports trouble keeping up with its docket without tradeoffs. And some doubt that district attorneys who grandly announce plea-bargain bans really enforce them. Still, it is difficult to understand why some jurisdictions manage to hold down plea bargaining, while others with comparable case loads bargain almost every time. Critics like Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz argue that bargaining is often born not of necessity but of "laziness"-or of judges competing for the cleanest docket...
Interest rates on most home loans have long hovered around 9½% or 10% or more, but last week more than 2,000 families in Chicago were able to get financing at a bargain 7.99%. The funds involved, totaling $83 million, were raised through tax-free municipal bonds in an intriguing experiment in encouraging urban homeowning...
...called the "assurance of permanence," he turned to more solid structures of concrete, brick and stone. For two decades, Stone produced variations of the New Delhi embassy, with its boxlike shape, gold-leaf columns, lacy concrete grille, fountains and reflecting pool. These works were frequently criticized as superficial and "bargain Taj Mahal," but Stone remained busy with important commissions. His General Motors building in Manhattan was completed in 1968 and Washington's John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts...