Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Aldo Moro. Addressed to Italy's Interior Minister Francesco Cossiga, it was delivered simultaneously last week to newspaper offices in Rome, Milan, Turin and Genoa. The grave, poignant message never said so directly, but the suggestion it contained was unmistakable: it was an appeal to Italian authorities to bargain with the Red Brigades terrorists who had abducted Moro two weeks earlier...
...DAMNING IMPLICATIONS of this ITT-CIA conspiracy and other "dirty tricks" of the multinational have claimed some casualties in the intervening years. First came two plea-bargains, one of which featured all the niceties of a slap on the wrist. In November 1976, a former ITT public relations director for Latin America named Harold V. Hendrix pleaded guilty to a one-count charge of failing to testify fully and accurately to the Senate multinationals subcommittee during the ITT hearings. In return for dropping possible perjury charges against Hendrix, the Justice Department required Hendrix to cooperate fully with its fledgling...
...loud/ I'm black and I'm proud!" Travolta waited for his moment, then retaliated with "Say it light/ I'm white and outasight!" One early indication of the Travolta charm is that he not only survived the bus ride but also got a few laughs into the bargain...
...work. When the strike began last December, most utility plants and steel mills--prime clients for the low-sulphur bituminous coal that comes from the eastern fields--were sitting on stockpiles that in some cases approached 90 days, and averaged 75. These stockpiles were used as cynical chips in bargaining with the union throughout the winter; it is only since the huge mountains of coal that surrounded the electrical and steel producers in December melted to tiny hillocks in March that the BCOA has made an attempt to bargain in good faith. It is clear that the onus...
...insisted a U.S. arms-control expert last week as the Carter Administration stepped up its efforts to soften opposition in Congress to a new SALT treaty. The old pact expired in October, but the U.S. and Soviet Union have agreed to continue abiding by it while negotiators in Geneva bargain on a SALT II treaty...