Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Undeserved Bargain. The most readily curable Post Office problem is caused by the first-class postage stamp itself. Today's 4?-stamp buyer is getting an undeserved bargain-as Day himself admits...
...Civil Service Committee, "it would be worth nearly 7? today in terms of 1962 dollars.'' But the Administration's bill would raise first-class only from 4? to 5?. If it were increased to 6?, it would wipe out the current deficit and still be a bargain...
...warmly to the Earl of Crawford's letter ("We've always wanted to keep this great work in Britain"), and reduced its price to a mere ?800,000. If this sum is not raised, however, the drawing will go on the block after all. "A pretty stiff bargain," sniffed the Daily Herald, but then went on to decry the whole by-jingo fuss: "There is something slightly ridiculous about the present outburst of patriotic excitement to retain this Italian drawing, for the national habit is to get art on the cheap." The Herald might have added that...
...Market moves toward its goal of abolishing tariffs between member nations and erecting a common external tariff wall, the U.S. could find its exports largely shut out. That is where the trade bill comes in. Its essential purpose, explained Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, is to enable the U.S. to "bargain down the outside tariff wall of the Common Market...
...master craftsman. The old man is fascinated by the adventuring spirit of man. Many of his poems are half wisdom and half whimsy, and Frost often seems to be sharing a sly, private joke with God. In fact, one couplet in In the Clearing offers God a bargain: Forgive, 0 Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great...