Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Committed to prompt extension of the 10% income tax surcharge. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long promised the Nixon Administration last summer that he would do everything he could to get it through. But Long's fellow Democrats were determined to bargain the surtax for tax reform, and the Louisianian could keep his promise to the President only by making another to them: in return for their votes on the surtax, he agreed to complete action on the House-passed reform bill and get it to the Senate floor...
More noticeable last night, however, was the President's increased despair over Hanoi's unwillingness to bargain. By putting greater emphasis on "Vietnamization," the President hopes to "bring the war to an end regardless of what happens on the negotiating front...
...Beach. Baker promised to swing deposits of Government funds into the bank, and Labor Racketeer Jack McCarthy agreed to pour union money into the vaults. Voloshen was to put together a syndicate to buy the bank. The deal collapsed when Voloshen was unable to meet his part of the bargain...
...Washington's red tape, many a big-time businessman seeks a big-time lawyer with political connections. Some of the country's most successful lawyers routinely charge high fees for making use of know-who as well as know-how. But can the courts enforce the bargain...
...Yankee Bargain. In 1960, the movement began to cross Massachusetts' borders, helped immeasurably by an implicit appeal to regional traditions. For one, the basic unit of government in New England is the town, and commissions fit easily into the scheme of town meetings. For another, given state and federal matching funds, the local governments were able to buy open land by putting up as little as 25% of the money. No Yankee could resist such a bargain...