Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taxpayers refuse to support the universities, as you suggest [May 9], then a double loss will be incurred. First, education will be stifled. Second, an important source of protest against the ills we've all been made aware of will be shut off. Right now, the best tax bargain for my money is all that is spent for education at all levels...
...stance, the Nixon plan had an almost immediate effect on the Paris peace talks. After formally presenting the message to Communist negotiators at week's end, Henry Cabot Lodge could make the optimistic announcement that, despite initial criticism, the other side gave "every indication" of willingness to bargain on Washington's proposals. In a still more heartening move, North Vietnamese negotiators agreed to meet secretly with the U.S. prior to this week's session. At the very least, when faced off against the Hanoi-National Liberation Front's ten-point plan presented the week before, Nixon...
...negotiating table, or hinted at privately, even during the Johnson Administration. But never before had they been put together so clearly or publicly. So far as official U.S. policy is concerned, it broke ground in three important places: the proposals for mutual troop withdrawals, the willingness to bargain on both political and military questions, and the idea of an international supervisory body...
...influence or control him but God and his conscience." To help protect him from temptation, the framers of the Constitution created a free and independent federal judiciary, with life tenure, a handsome salary and protection from capricious removal or congressional retaliation. The judge's part of the bargain is implicit but clear. He is expected to adhere to moral standards far more stringent than those of the ordinary citizen. As Washington Attorney Joseph Borkin has written, the judge is "the epitome of honor among men, the highest personage of the law." The American Bar Association stipulates that he must...
...have not been able to still. In their cafes and kibbutzim, Israelis, too, talk of a fourth round?while disparaging the Arab "war propaganda" as designed only to frighten the big-power diplomats. Within what they consider Fortress Israel, the Israelis regard with deep suspicion any outside attempt to bargain away the occupied territories that provide them with a measure of security, if not of peace...