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Word: bargainer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only thing we have to bargain with is our publications." Yearbook president Donald E. Tarver II '82, said Friday, adding that University officials have been "very inconsiderate about the whole housing matter from the start...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Freshman Register Is Imperiled | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

...enterprise seemed to stop there. As a boy on the frontier of Ohio, he had been instructed by his father in how to bargain for a colt-then told the owner the highest price he could offer. He remained ingenuous; amid the bonanzas of the West, he panned only fool's gold. In San Francisco, a friend from the East talked him out of $1,500 for a partnership, gulled him into destroying the notes and soon absconded. On Army duty in the Pacific Northwest, he sought to make some side money raising potatoes for hungry settlers; the Columbia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Six Lives, Two Centuries | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

Cruises offer bargain vacations with sitcom expectations

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Love Boats Rule the Waves | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...during the course of the campaign, the University said it would bargain in good faith if the union prevailed, causing union organizers to bubble over with enthusiasm when faced with the prospect of victory in yesterday's referendum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Med Workers Reject Union; District 65 to File Complaint | 4/10/1981 | See Source »

Early this year, before the trial of the older attackers began, defense lawyers thought the case so hopeless that they attempted (and failed) to plea-bargain with Prosecutor Robert Rodrigues. Once again, Anna flew back to Hawaii from Finland. In direct testimony she described the assaults. But the defense lawyers declined to cross-examine Anna. In so doing they forfeited a chance to challenge her story, but they also cut off the prosecutor's only opportunity to draw further detailed testimony from her in rebuttal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: I Feel Sorry for Hawaii | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

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