Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the President said he had given the Republican leadership some "running room" to bargain on the Hill, the maneuvering space was narrow indeed. One senior Administration official explained that it is "too early" for any Reagan retreat from his budget since that would make him "look weaker than Jimmy Carter." The implication was that the President might compromise later. If not, Ronald Reagan could wind up risking the judgment that he places his personal determination to be consistent above the economic well-being of the nation. -By EdMagnuson. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett/Washington and Douglas Brew with Reagan
...popular runs. The result is a hodgepodge of pricing that makes little economic or business sense. As of last week, it cost only $77 to fly from New York City to southern Florida on some flights but $168 to go to Myrtle Beach, S.C., about 500 miles closer. The bargain fare to Los Angeles was $149, but it cost $169 to fly a little more than a third as far, to St. Louis...
...relatively recent phenomenon. In 1970, just before budgets tightened, tenure openings disappeared and salaries fell behind the cost of living, there were 160 union campuses in the country. By the end of the decade, even though only half the states allow state employees, including faculty at public universities, to bargain collectively, there were 750 unionized campuses. The vast majority were public institutions. Some private college faculties had been organized too. But in 1980 a Supreme Court decision on faculty unionization at Yeshiva University in New York City discouraged further efforts. The court held that Yeshiva professors are not employees...
...course, if the Gobbler works, we will lose a bit in the bargain. The instructive messages in public toilets, the phone numbers, the lively anatomical drawings-no loss in any of that. But some things will be missed. The desperate erudition on the walls of college hangouts, for example: ARS LONGA; VITA HERRING. The continuing message exchanges will also disappear...
...NLRB rules that DiGiovanni does have a major interest in the three firms, the union says it will picket on Church Street to force DiGiovanni to bargain about Ferdinand's and Ha'penny...