Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...caught. Seeing police take a stance of calculated restraint, adults joined in the pillage. Often cops stood by without hindering looters. In New York City, lone patrolmen sometimes were ordered to ignore the plundering and avert traffic backups that could make riot scenes more perilous. In Pittsburgh, one eager bargain seeker stocked up a shopping cart at a looted supermarket, rolled it out into an alley, bumped into a cop and asked blandly: "Is this the way to the checkout counter...
North Viet Nam has maintained that it cannot bargain for the Viet Cong, that this must be done by the National Liberation Front, which neither the U.S. nor the Saigon government recognizes as an independent entity. N.L.F. representation in some form would be tolerated by Washington, but the Thieu regime says it will never make a deal with the Viet Cong's representatives. The N.L.F., for its part, insists it will not bargain with Thieu's government, whose legitimacy it denies...
...flies. On market day, the people rise before dawn to assemble their wares and carry them, in great bundles on their heads, to the villages. The market place becomes a meeting place where people find their friends, catch up on the news, and exchange their goods. They will bargain furiously over prices, not so much out of bitterness as with an exuberant sense of play...
...Pittsburgh strike was a response to Superintendent Sidney Marland's insistence that there must be "a better way" for teachers to influence educational policy than to join a union, and to a flat refusal by the city's school board to bargain with the union. San Francisco school officials first claimed that California law prevented them from dealing with a union, later relented, but the talks broke off as the union made 92 demands, claimed that Superintendent Robert Jenkins was moving too slowly on the negotiations...
First, the right of the growing millions of public employees to organize and bargain collectively must be recognized. Second, urgent and continuing work should be undertaken to develop bargaining procedures and machinery aimed at preventing strikes, rather than banning them and punishing strikers. While situations will differ widely from one state and city to another, some forms of fact-finding, conciliation, mediation, arbitration and injunction to work in the public sector must be devised. Third, despite all the complications involved, it must be recognized that there are differences among various kinds of public service -that some are more essential than...