Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Operating on the Jones philosophy, Northrop had to make some harsh choices. It scrapped a program to build a costly Mach 3 interceptor, elected instead to develop a bargain-basement ($550,000) jet trainer. "Some people thought we were damned fools, because the Air Force was planning to buy 500 of these interceptors at $5,000,000 apiece," recalls Jones. "But it was clear to me that there were some tough decisions ahead that the Defense Department hadn't owned up to. With money being poured into long-range missiles, a program for a long-range fighter-interceptor looked...
...such criticism is trivial. A polished cast enlivens a play that has already withstood the test of time. To begin its second season, the Loeb opens its doors with a bargain...
...talk about negotiation; he wanted merely to mention the general areas that the U.S. might be willing to discuss, and to state once again the U.S.'s firm intent to defend West Berlin. So far, said John Kennedy bluntly, Russia had made no acceptable proposals for any possible bargain; until it did, the U.S. was not interested in negotiations, either on the foreign ministers' level or at the summit...
...majority Washington needs for its China maneuver depends on the votes of at least a dozen new African nations who have proposed an intricate bargain in exchange for their support. They want West Africa's little Mauritania to get membership this session. Cleverly, Moscow enters the picture with a threat to veto Mauritania unless one of its own pets, Outer Mongolia, a puppet republic embedded in Red China, gets in the club at the same time. So the Africans have told the U.S.: Accept both Outer Mongolia and Mauritania as U.N. members, and we will vote with you against...
...Francisco's War Memorial Opera House last week, the Ford Foundation got the first dividend on its $950,000 grant to U.S. composers for 18 new operas: the premiére of Norman Dello Joio's Blood Moon. Judged by critical response, Blood Moon was a bad bargain. "It does not send you out singing," complained the Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein. The Examiner's Alexander Fried was more biting. Blood Moon, said he, hovered "between an ambitious grand opera manner and light-opera clich...