Word: bargained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pity, a Roman Catholic church in North Cambridge, Mass., had never before seemed so aptly named. Looking ahead to the coming winter, the priests were stunned to discover that their heating-oil bill for 1979 will make even the $12,000 they paid last year look like a bargain. To cut costs, they plan to close off the 1,100-seat main sanctuary during the cold months and hold services in the church chapel and chapel hall, which together can accommodate only 500 worshipers. Explains one priest: "It is simply a question of 45 gal. an hour to heat...
Even in the era of the minibuck the figure is astonishing: $225 million. But ABC, which last week agreed to pay that much for TV coverage of the 1984 Olympics, thinks it has a bargain. "We intend to more than recover our costs," ABC-TV President Fred Pierce proudly announced in Los Angeles, host city to the '84 summer Games...
...goal of the corporate campaign, Rogers says, "is to cause those institutions that are tied to J.P. Stevens--either through investments or in the form of corporate connections--to exert influence on the company to recognize the rights and dignity of workers and to sit down and bargain in good faith, realizing that their own real interest is the interest of workers...
...only a white fur stole but exposing little more than cleavage. Pilgrim's progress has been pretty good: now 45 and the mother of two teenage girls, Hefner's pioneer pinup is still as pretty as her picture. · At $500,000 the mansion was a doubtful bargain, even with 26 rooms, 1.7 acres and a prime location in Long Island's haute summer town of East Hampton. And even with its notorious cachet as Grey Gardens, squalid home of the Ediths Beale, mère et fille, much publicized relatives of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis...
Insurance executives, however, argue that punitive damages are nothing but a windfall for the plaintiff and his attorney. Big awards, they say, make it easier for people with dubious claims to bargain companies into paying large settlements, which in turn are paid for by others in the form of increased premiums. Says William Adams, associate general counsel of Occidental Life: "People with unquestionable claims, and that's about 95%, are not benefited by ShernofF's activities. He should not be pounding the table claiming he's helping the consumer. He's hurting most of them...