Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ambassador to Ohio.Instead, the race has developed into a sharp personal conflict. Gilligan calls Taft a "bargain-basement New Dealer," relentlessly derides his opponent's reliance on his name, gibes at the campaign signs that "don't even carry his first name, don't carry the office he seeks, don't say vote, don't say Republican, don't say anything else. They've just got those four gorgeous letters...
...position in Viet Nam, Wilson was booed by Britniks as he read the New Testament lesson in a Brighton church, but the most bitter criticism came from trade unionists within his party. They argued that the whole labor movement would die if unions no longer had the right to bargain for higher wages. Six hundred auto workers massed outside Wilson's hotel in Brighton. "Wilson, you traitor!" they shouted. Inside the Labor conference, Frank Cousins, the boss of Britain's biggest union, the Transport and General Workers, fumed defiance. "We shall now be in conflict with...
...Greeley Square store, with its two subterranean floors of bargain basement for subway shoppers, was an immediate success. On the strength of it, Bernard Gimbel took another chance. In 1923 he negotiated with Horace A. Saks to buy Saks's 34th Street store as well as the Fifth Avenue site where Saks was planning an uptown store. The negotiations took place partly in a railroad baggage car, where the two men sat atop an empty coffin and talked business. Saks's Cadillac-class merchandise now accounts for half of Gimbel Bros.' earnings...
...field, and one of the important questions now before the Crime Commission concerns the amount and sources of financial support which will be needed in the field. Investment of funds to give us information and to carry out changes in this field could turn out to be a great bargain for our society...
...nationalist sympathies, he feels that nationalist have often hampered effective action by taking a hard, doctrinaire line that prevents coalition. "The function of nationalism is to point out the fallacies of the civil rights movement," Gothard said, implying that before equality can be achieved, Negroes must be able to bargain from a position of power. But building power involves compromise, at least within the community...