Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most embarrassing thing that can happen to a politician is, of course, to get beaten in an election. The next most embarrassing thing is to make a bargain and not be able to keep it-which is precisely what happened last week to House Speaker John McCormack...
...Virginia's House delegation, to 126 for Landrum. Since both Jennings and Tennessee's Bass are loyal Administration supporters, their election certainly strengthened the chances of passing the fiscal legislation President Kennedy believes is vital. But McCormack's inability to deliver his end of the bargain was an ominous sign, another reminder of the tenuous control the Administration's chief spokesman exercises over the Democratic Party in the House...
...matter how discriminating a connoisseur might be, it is doubtful that he can buy so fast and still maintain the quality that Price genuinely wants. What was meant to be a basement bargain in art could easily become bargain debasement. But still, the public is buying. "In square old Pasadena," says Price, "3,000 people came to the Sears art show, and 180 paintings were sold in one night. They're not buying for investment; they're buying for pleasure." It's a pleasure for Sears...
...could buy a helicopter. All it took was money-usually about $45,000 of it. In late 1961 Hughes Tool Co. produced a turbine-powered two-seater model that sold for $22,500, but few commuters could afford even such a bargain. Last week Hughes made the sky attainable...
...mendicant has since done pretty well for himself. By arranging loans and credits of $1.05 billion from such friends as the U.S. and the International Mone tary Fund, by cutting back luxury imports and pushing bargain-priced exports, and by slapping surcharges on tariffs at a time when most other nations are lowering theirs, Canada has done a considerable job of turning its economy around. Totting up accounts. Trade and Commerce Minister George Hees cited evidence as cheerful as his salesman's smile...