Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Marcos is the highest-ranking former foreign official indicted in this country, said U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani. Giuliani refused comment on published reports stating that the indictment was sought after plea bargain negotiations broke down earlier this week...
...current rate, the 1988 trade deficit will total some $130 billion, 23.5% less than last year's record $170 billion. That progress has resulted primarily from the 40% drop of the dollar against major currencies since early 1985, which has made imports more expensive and U.S. exports a bargain overseas...
THOSE CORPORATE RAIDERS CAN ALWAYS SMELL A BARGAIN. Takeover artists, restrained by high stock prices before the crash, have gone on a shopping spree once again. Florida-based financier Paul Bilzerian, 38, acquired the Singer Co. for $1.06 billion last February partly because the crash had depressed its stock price. Since then, Bilzerian has sold off eight of Singer's twelve divisions for a total of $1.94 billion, more than enough to cover all his costs. In the end, he is expected to reap a $300 million profit. The Government is investigating his earlier raids for possible securities-law violations...
...shopping, the eastern "City of Angels" has already begun to eclipse Hong Kong and Singapore as the bargain basement of the East, its low prices beaten even lower in a minuet of smiles and shrugs and bartered murmurings of "Mai pen rai," or "Never mind." Temptations are ubiquitous. Stalls line the main streets of the city from morning to midnight, hawking $10 "Rolexes," 80 cents pirated cassettes, silk ties and suitcases and noodles; river markets assemble impromptu on the canals at dawn; and 40 shiny department stores sell everything from computerized horoscopes to tiger cubs. In Bangkok, moreover, high standards...
...sink into one of Thailand's seaside dreams: Pattaya, the "sea, sand and sin" city just 90 minutes from Bangkok; or Phuket, a Tahitian strip of bungalows along the emerald-green Andaman Sea that is home to Club Med and a host of other beach resorts; or, for the bargain-seeking pleasure lover, the Crusoe simplicity of Ko Phangan, an island free of electricity, where beachside huts go for as little as $1 a day. Travel from one idyll to the next is a tropical breeze: long-distance buses come with hostess service and in-ride movies, while even more...