Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mother persuades Graciella Borges to be his mistress by promising her a trip to Paris following the funeral. After a few days of amorous ghoulash, Alcon's doctors tell him he will live. When Borges hears this, she lets him know for the first time about her bargain with his mother. He shoots himself in despair; she goes to Paris. All these witty antics take place in a seaside retreat as elegant as suburban Miami. At least the Italians have St. Peter's or the Borghese Gardens for a backdrop; in Argentina there are ranch houses and shopping centers...
...U.A.W. could claim a victory of sorts. The union established its right to bargain with Kohler, was backed up by the National Labor Relations Board and the courts, and won a contract that was somewhat more generous about fringe benefits and union security than the one in effect...
...moved to a Beverly Hills mansion, where they keep the porcine humor squealing: "What's a smog?" "A smog's a small hog." CBS's hour-long Fair Exchange is about an American family that trades teen-aged daughters with an English family. It is no bargain on either side...
...three Cyanamid-developed antibiotics and one antiarthritic steroid. Cyanamid estimates that the Italian firms-all of which hotly echo Fox and Sharff in denying any formula pirating-last year sold $25 million worth of drugs based on Cyanamid processes. Ironically, two major customers for the controversial drugs were the bargain-minded U.S. Defense Department and Veterans Administration, which together during the past two years bought $3,500,000 worth of two Italian-made antibiotics-which Cyanamid claims are its Achromycin and Aureomycin...
...least 1,800 years before television caused its first headaches, bargain hunters in the slave markets of Rome submitted prospective purchases to a trial as nerve-racking as watching a badly adjusted picture tube. Before a slave was bought and paid for, he was forced to stare at a potter's wheel rotating rapidly in bright sunlight. If the flicker caused the slave to keel over, the deal was off. Seizures before the spinning potter's wheel were taken as a sign of "the falling sickness," the Roman name for epilepsy...