Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exactly the reverse. Last November they junked nationalization in favor of a kind of New Deal capitalism, which would include "as much competition as possible, as much planning as necessary." Three weeks ago -a major post-summit switch-they abandoned their long insistence that Germany might strike a bargain with the Russians, giving up NATO membership in exchange for a unified (if neutralized) Germany. Said the party's Deputy Chairman Herbert Wehner: "Like the Christian Democrats' position, the Socialist position is that the European pact system and NATO must serve as a basis for any foreign-policy...
...microscopic sleeping beauties. The ATCC made more than 8,000 shipments in 1959. Disease germs went mostly to medical schools and drug companies (no amateurs need apply for plague or typhoid), but nonharmful cultures went to everybody who asked. High schools got standardized bacteria for biology experiments at the bargain price of $2 per vial...
...anything, the second buy was a better bargain than the first. The Denver Post has been barely scraping by on the balance sheet, but the three Springfield papers-the morning Union (circ. 80,968), the evening News (99,998) and the Sunday Republican (112,352)-produce a cool net profit of $1,000,000 a year...
...rising challenge of bargain-priced foreign imports has sparked a profound-and controversial-change in the strategy of many U.S. businesses. To meet the competition, hundreds of U.S. firms are going abroad to manufacture or buy products to sell in U.S. markets. Already U.S. firms import or manufacture overseas an estimated $1 billion worth of products each year for U.S. customers-and the trend is growing fast...
...Year Bargain? Besides the 80 schools in the conti nental U.S. (plus one in Puerto Rico) producing M.D.s this year, there are four "junior colleges" which teach the basic medical sciences for two years, then send their diploma-holding graduates to enter four-year schools as juniors. This is a vital and valuable service to the four-year schools. Most of their dropouts, averaging 10% (but ranging as high as 19%, depend ing mainly on the thoroughness of their preadmission screen ing), are in the first two years. The result: vacancies in the upper classes, with only 90 M.D.s graduated...