Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apartment for breakfast. As Brandt stepped out of his Mercedes limousine at the State Department, 15 Marines formed an honor guard, a tribute extended to no other foreign visitor in memory. Yet, despite the new air of easy friendliness, Washington has been warned that it will have to bargain hard with the "new" Bonn on at least two matters of importance...
...surface brilliance tends to camoflage the intellectual excesses of a director in danger of running out of things to say. But Blow-Up is undeniably one of the most interesting films released in 1966, a striking presentation of a personal viewpoint with some pretty good film-making in the bargain...
They are also a bargain: the average cost per defector is $125, v. an estimated $400,000 expended to kill one enemy soldier, and 70% of those coming over so far have been combat soldiers. For all the success of Chieu Hoi, though, it is still far from winning the war. To date there have been only 200 defectors from the North Vietnamese forces, and no matter how many war-weary Viet Cong come over the line, there will be yet more Northerners to replace them. Still, Saigon feels that the defection rate has reached a turning point, expects this...
...attack any selection system which does not protect bright students, Curtis explained. "Back in 1951 Conant (James B. Conant, former President of Harvard) told the military, 'You give us the bright boys, we won't say anything about the draft. Now the military has broken its part of the bargain, and the educators are free to say what they want...
...clique of capitalists emerged soon after the 1949 revolution, when many wealthy Chinese fled to Taiwan or Hong Kong in fear of their lives. Those who stayed struck a bargain with the Reds. In desperate need of old-fashioned expertise to run China's newly nationalized industries, the Communists allowed factory owners to stay on as managers. They were guaranteed their regular salaries, plus 5% annual interest on the value of their former holdings-as assessed by Communist party bureaucrats...