Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...booty, Karp and his crew have suffered four hernias, wrecked three cars, and paid thousands of dollars to demolition men. "We've got to negotiate with them," says Karp. "They're a rather cynical race, and the whole building would be destroyed if we didn't bargain with them." Months ago, Karp and friends showed up to protest, then recently to haggle as crowbar and sledge hammer sliced into Fifth Avenue's elegant Brokaw mansion, a late 19th century simulacrum of France's Chenonceaux chateau. Karp offered to buy two copper finials perched atop...
...Bargain Investments. Many of today's foreign buyers are Europeans (mostly Germans, followed by the Dutch, Belgians and Swiss) impelled partly by a desire to escape dismal winters but still more by the smell of a bargain investment. Florida lots often cost about one-fifth the price of a comparable homesite on the Continent. Typical terms: as little as $1,295 for a 10,000-sq.-ft. plot with water and sewerage connections, and $25 down and eight years to pay at 5% interest. Moreover, if they choose to build, Europeans get more house for their money...
...line of men's toiletries "that make any man dangerous." In May, Revere Knitting Mills will bring out knit shirts with the numerals 007 embroidered on them. Spatz Bros, of New York is making a new 007 trench-coat with secret pockets, throws a plastic Beretta into the bargain. Weldon Manufacturing is planning his and hers pajamas with secret pockets, and Harry Diamond Corp. is making 007 swimsuits and sports shirts. Angostura Bitters has begun pushing an 007 drink-gin or vodka with lemon juice, sugar, soda and two dashes of bitters-served, naturally, in a Baccarat highball glass...
...nations which formally divided Vietnam at Geneva in 1954 could meet again and immediately negotiate a cease-fire for, say one year. At the conference Vietnam would be militarily neutralized and the U.S. could bargain with Ho for as much political non-alignment as it can get. But the facts must be faced: a united Vietnam will be Communist...
...began with the biggest real-estate deal in history. On April 30, 1803, Napoleon Bonaparte sold Thomas Jefferson a parcel of land called Louisiana. It ran from the Mississippi to the Rockies, from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, and it was quite a bargain: 827,987 sq. mi. for $15 million. But what the U.S. owned it did not occupy. Already British traders were pressing south from Canada and Spanish raiders were roaming north from Mexico. Jefferson realized that he would have to move fast if America was to retain its new territory. He moved fast...