Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nonetheless, the speed with which the Administration accepted the agreement contributed to doubts, even among supporters of normalization, about whether the U.S. got the best of the bargain. Said Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers, fresh from spending two weeks in mainland China: "It made me wonder how much the President left on the negotiating table." Probably nothing, in the view of several Asian scholars. "We could have held out," said Harvard's Benjamin Schwartz, "but I doubt that China would ever openly say that it was going to assure the security of Taiwan...
...years of talks, SALT II was finally within reach. The Secretary seemed especially relaxed on the plane. During the first day's talks, after reading their formal statements, Vance and Gromyko engaged in some serious trading, indicating that both had been given substantial leeway to strike a bargain. Later, after telephoning a brief progress report to Carter, a tired Vance acknowledged that the number of outstanding questions had been narrowed. Still, he cautioned, "We have some issues yet to be resolved. Some are difficult...
...other readers. Today, of course, the $60 investment is a blue chip. If a reader had purchased TIME at a newsstand every week during the past 49 years, he would have spent $788.65. Abraham Katz of Cambridge, Mass., however, regards his subscription as more than just a bargain. "To be a part of the magazine's growth during all these years," says the 75-year-old electrical-supplies distributor, "makes me very proud." We'll be proud to serve you perpetually, Mr. Katz...
...other hand, Borg-Warner seems to be getting a bargain. In a complicated exchange of stock, it would pay about $15 a share for Firestone. That is some $2 above the market price before the offer but far less than last year's $24 high and well below Firestone's book value of about $25 a share, or $1.5 billion. Aside from collecting assets cheaply, Borg-Warner would be buying 1) protection from a possible unwelcome bidder for its own company, 2) a sizable paper loss from the 500-series recall that could be used to reduce future...
When we reached the bargain basement itself, Namo passed into a trance--like state, staring at the islands of gods-at-slashed-prices, shouldering his way roughly through the crowd of rabid shoppers, and stopping now and then to pick up an item for closer examination, or to give it a trial squeeze. I followed Namo, partly because he seemed to be onto something, and partly because he was unstoppable. The apotheosis of the rational consumer, he weighed and considered, clutched tightly then stepped back, fondled and dismissed. I began to get the sense that nothing would please...