Word: bargained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...communiqués," the kidnapers pointedly indicted their victim as his party's "political godfather" while attacking the Christian Democrats as "antiproletarian criminals" and the Communists as so many "bourgeois revisionists." Their attempt failed; both parties sensed the danger to the political process, and the government refused to bargain for Moro's life...
Thieves sell such machines at bargain prices: a stolen $60,000 International crawler tractor was offered at $35,000 to one potential buyer, who became suspicious and called the cops. Usually this equipment is left on the job site when work crews head home. Watchmen are too expensive for many contractors, and the ones that are posted are easily overpowered by thieves. Says Hugh Goulding, vice president of Howell Tractor and Equipment Co., "The thieves simply winch it onto a lowboy trailer and drive it away...
...Robbers II is at least a real story about small-time overreachers whose moment of glory rapidly dimmed into a life time of despair, anxiety, prison tedium and the need to peddle their questionable confessions. Their literary accessory after the dubious facts tries to keep his end of the bargain. But he finally falters, at tempting to balance his conscience and his contract. -R.Z. Sheppard
...Adoption of a policy permitting nonwhite workers to bargain collectively on matters relating to wages and conditions of employment...
...most vehement opponents of any bargain with the kidnapers were still the Communists. Stung by the Brigatisti's repeated claims to be fighting for "Communism," the party was determined to put as much distance as possible between itself and the ultra-leftist "criminals." Arguing that a surrender to the terrorists would lead to more violence and civil war, Party Chief Enrico Berlinguer told a party youth congress in Florence: "We must be inflexible not because of a cold and abstract 'reason of state,' but because, if we yield, the democratic institutions would enter into a suicidal logic...