Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inside the bargain-rate, $200-a-month Lansing office, filing cabinets bulged with letters from well-wishers, and a few recently acquired tomes on Viet Nam occupied an unpainted bookcase. Situated in a tumble-down neighborhood four blocks from the Michigan state capitol, Governor George Romney's new head quarters - formally dubbed the "research center" - clearly had nothing to do with state business. The working hypothesis, of course, was that the Republican presidential nomination was within Rom ney's reach. However logical that as- sumption might seem, it was being undermined with empirical assiduity almost half a continent...
...Business Administration and a vet eran Sinologist. Writing in the Harvard Business Review, Richman describes Mao's country as "a land where some 300,000 capitalists still receive interest on their investments, and where many of them are still serving as managers of their nationalized enterprises." Striking a Bargain. Richman, a Ca nadian citizen, toured China for two months last spring, found that many businessmen had not only survived but thrived on Red soil. Though small-stuff storekeepers are included in Richman's 300,000, many are members of China's once-great landowning and industrial families...
...three members of SDS who met with May and Wofford did not ask to "bargain" over this issue, David O. Loud '68, one of the three, said yesterday. Loud said they had not given any guarantees, and, according to May, the three left the impression that SDS's general membership might demand a demonstration similar to the McNamara protest if the Institute fails to meet SDS's request...
...from all service in the armed forces. The CO classified I-AO is eligible for non-combatant duty and usually serves as a medic. It is much easier to get a I-AO than a I-O because I-AOs count toward fulfilling local boards' quotas. Draft boards often bargain with CO's seeking I-O status and try to get them to settle for I-AO. A stock question which draft boards pose is "Would Christ help civilians and refuse to help soldiers?" The implication is that the I-A-O medic is an independent agent of mercy...
...vegetable oil because the transaction was completed last April, well before Findley's amendment was approved by Congress. Nonetheless, Administration bridge building will be more seriously crimped in future by yet another amendment attached to the bill extending the Food-for-Peace program. It prohibits the shipment of bargain U.S. food to any nation that sells strategic materials to Cuba. Yugoslavia sends Castro goods ranging from truck tires to machinery. And, in fact, the U.S. is no longer in a position to dispense vast agricultural surpluses around the world. The Department of Agriculture estimates that wheat supplies on hand...