Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...terms with 64 oz. of gold at a time when the precious metal was selling for $396 per oz. Suitably reinspired, Neiman rushed to completion his impression of a busy day at the bar, replete with a piper skirling among the clientele. Said Neiman modestly: "They got a bargain, because I think it's going to be a legend...
...professor, Lawrence Hunter, said his 170 students will learn how political groups form, bargain and negotiate. He added that students will be rewarded in the project for quick thinking and double crosses and penalized for straight-forwardness and naivete...
Perhaps that's an overstatement, but the IAB is no bargain. Fans must walk up four long flights of stairs to the court. Maximum capacity is about 1600, smallest in the Ivy League, and that does not mean 1600 seats. More like bleachers which are pulled out for games. Not exactly the big time...
...Tuesday sell-off gained momentum when the Chicago Board of Trade took emergency actions like those ordered earlier by New York's Commodity Exchange. Yet before Tuesday was out, buyers were rushing back in to take advantage of the "bargain" rates of $680 for gold and $34 for silver, and the metals began rising all over again. Said Les Edgar, chief bullion dealer at London's Sharps, Pixley Ltd.: "It's a casino business now, and people are playing it that...
...number of delegate seats could be automatically allotted to them. Tim Hagan, Democratic Party chairman of Ohio's Cuyahoga County, recommends letting state parties add at least 25 delegates from their own ranks who would be uncommitted to any particular candidate. That would leave them free to bargain with other delegations at the convention. Says Hagan: "I see nothing wrong with 100 county chairmen from across the country having some say about what direction they want to go in. At least they would be a check on the possibility that someone runs through these primaries without great scrutiny...