Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Asia and Latin America. Lo, who owns one-fifth of the company's shares and gets royalties on Puma sales, is managing director of Lomond. Monsanto hopes that under his hand the proverbial cow of China may yet yield a truly international soft drink and, in the bargain, a handy source of protein...
Lagos is a cosmopolitan city, and like any growing capital, the new and old exist side by side. In one of the open-air markets you bargain; in one of the big department stores you pay a flat rate for a sundae or a sweater. Just a few miles outside the city, the University of Lagos is literally rising out of jungle forest...
PUTTING CHAMBER of Commerce "labor reforms" into law would be similar to putting George Wallace in charge of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. The Labor Board is essential to union growth and to labor's power to bargain. It provides the only impartial supervision for the organizing elections that decide if a plant is to become union. Without a watchdog, unions could hardly win an election, for an employer's mere suggestion that if the union came in he might close down business is often enough to keep workers from voting for the union...
...tour, the usual thing would have been for the U.S. ambassador and his wife to have the conductor and the concertmaster to dinner. Not the Shrivers: they asked all 110 members, from Conductor Charles Munch to the tym-panists, and included a batch of French music critics in the bargain. Shriver gulped down his dinner and table-hopped. His characteristic opener: "Very glad to have you here. What else do you think we should be doing...
...still during the last eight years while the Soviets mass-produced ICBM's and by early next year the two countries will probably have the same number of missiles. Although he admits that a halt in the arms race would be desirable. Nixon insists that the United States cannot bargain with the Russians until it re-establishes its superiority in weapons...