Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bold one. The Taylors and Hills have turned down stud-syndication offers ranging as high as $14 million; the premiums on Slew's $3.5 million insurance policy run a huge $2,000 per week. Those are, heady figures for a colt bought at auction for a bargain-basement $17,500. But Slew's owners want to return some of their good fortune to the sport. For racing fans, a four-year-old campaign by a Triple Crown Champion would be rich reward indeed...
Union organizers say they are confident of victory, but Harvard has not given up. Even if District 65 wins the right to represent the Med Area workers, Harvard might refuse to bargain with the union--forcing another round of litigation, this time in the Federal Courts...
...half year legal battle against the efforts of District 65 of the Distributive Workers of America to hold an election among Med Area workers. Harvard and its lawyers have consistently sought to prevent over 1000 University clerical and technical employees from gaining the right to bargain effectively with their monolithic employer. And now, even after the National Labor Relations Board has upheld the union's right to go ahead in its organizing drive, Harvard continues to oppose the workers' desire to deal through an effective bargaining representative...
...deal with Japanese makers to limit imports. But now the picture is darkening again; U.S. Government investigators are probing charges that Japanese manufacturers have been making illegal kickbacks to U.S. importers as a way of getting around federal "antidumping" regulations, and selling color TV sets in the U.S. at bargain-basement prices. Government sources told TIME that one executive of a U.S. importing company has admitted that his firm has received millions of dollars in such kickbacks. John Nevin, chairman of Zenith, the U.S. company whose complaint touched off the investigation about a year ago, calls the kickback probe...
Last February, three disgruntled Harvard students left a Yard dorm cursing two of their fellow freshmen for selling mescaline at the "outrageous" price of $2.50 per hit. They could have bought ten hits for only $20, not really a bargain either...