Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What sort of bargain Svoboda and Dubcek might be able to strike in Moscow remained problematical. Pravda's massive editorial sounding the warning on the invasion made it clear that the Kremlin wants to be assured of several things before it withdraws its army. The Russians insist that the old-line cad res be kept in their jobs in the party and government. They want press freedoms curtailed. They want guarantees that Czechoslovakia's economy will remain oriented toward the Soviet bloc...
...that one effect will be to in crease unemployment from 3.5% of the labor force to about 4.5%; this is because companies faced with higher taxes will recoup by hiring fewer new workers. Downholds on employment, together with more stable prices, will give unions less of a base to bargain from. Another imponderable is the consumer: he is presently saving money at the high rate of 7% of disposable income. Economists speculate that, with the tax increase," he will reduce saving but continue to spend. In a study released by Commercial Credit Co., University of Michigan Professor Paul W. McCracken...
Virginia (54): No delegates will be chosen until July 27, and Governor Mills E. Godwin is expected to keep them uncommitted until he can strike a favorable bargain...
More plausibly, Capote argued that a cheap crook with Ray's dismal record of bargain-basement villainy could not have traveled so far without extensive help from experts. In Capote's view, Ray was the low man in an elaborate and many-tiered plot-the pigeon paid to leave his fingerprints on a rifle and then decoy pursuers away from King's real assassin. The plotters allowed Ray to live, Capote hypothesized, because he had no knowledge of the conspiracy's inner core...
During steel's last labor negotiations three years ago, a national strike was averted only by the Johnson Administration's last-minute intervention. Brought to the White House to bargain, the two sides finally agreed on wage increases amounting to 3.7% a year. Since then, however, Steelworkers have seen those gains largely wiped out by an 8.8% jump in consumer prices. With living costs still climbing, the union is now seeking, as Vice President Joseph P. Molony puts it, "whopping" wage increases...