Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first it looked like a bargain. In return for Veteran Halfback Bobby Mitchell and Rookie Leroy Jackson, the Cleveland Browns persuaded the Washington Redskins to part with Halfback Ernie Davis, two-year Syracuse All-America and the National Football League's No. 1 draft choice. But the deal went sour when Davis, the most highly-touted rookie to hit the league in years, was hospitalized with a blood disorder and doctors announced that he would be unable to play football...
...print the Khrushchev text in its news columns free if Pravda or Izvestia reciprocated by publishing the full text of President Kennedy's Sept. 25 speech to the United Nations, outlining the U.S. stand for realistically controlled and inspected disarmament. The Russians did not seem interested in the bargain...
Insisting that they too are entitled to bargain for better wages and working conditions, FOUR leaders last April won from the National Labor Relations Board the right to conduct a representation election among I.L.G.W.U. staff members. The outcome of the vote was left hanging on the fate of two contested ballots-one cast by FOUR's president, the other by a top aide. Both men had been dismissed by the I.L.G.W.U. for alleged violations of "union ethics" before the vote. Last week the NLRB virtually assured FOUR's victory by decreeing that the two disputed (and still unopened...
...been compelled to buy space in both evening papers, at a retail rate of 10^ a line in each. Newhouse merged the two papers, retaining their best individual features. Then he raised the Her aid-Journal's retail ad rate to 13¢ a line. Merchants responded to the bargain, and retail ad sales rose nearly $1,000,000 the first year...
...free home delivery offered by the Jefftown Journal is hardly a bargain. All who read the paper live within the walls of the Missouri State Prison at Jefferson City, where the Journal is printed by its inmate staff. The Journal's policy is to look for the silver lining; it reports the bleak news of prison life in the brightest voice it can muster, and it encourages prisoners to work toward rehabilitation. But most Journal readers share a common misery that goes untouched by such institutional cheer. Lately they have found a wry spokesman in the Journal...