Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simmering debate over whether a reporter's promise of anonymity is absolute. "My responsibility is to readers," argues David Hall, editor then of the Pioneer Press & Dispatch and now of the Bergen (N.J.) Record, in defense of his decision. But critics point out that Hall could have kept the bargain with Cohen by simply attributing the information to a "Whitney supporter." "This is a very simple case," says Hennepin County Chief Public Defender William Kennedy, a Democrat. "A promise is a promise...
None of this comes without a price. Star Tours took six years to make and cost $32 million. Link's Apaches, at $20 million apiece, cost at least $5 million more than the helicopters themselves. Even so, simulators are a bargain compared with the expense of training on the real thing, not to mention the expense in equipment and human lives when a real-world training mission goes awry. "One of the greatest things about simulators," says Honeywell's Figgins, "is that after the worst possible accident, everybody goes off and has a drink...
...Greek ideal of oikonomia (literally, house management) is the optimum disposal of one's resources. Bush's claim that Dukakis has fetched his politics from some liberal boutique in Harvard could not be further from the truth. He was never susceptible to fads. He does not shop boutiques, but bargain basements, wanting the same old things at a better price...
Long before he was a presidential candidate, Jesse Jackson made a name for ^ himself as an able negotiator. He knows instinctively how to bluff and bargain, when to hold 'em and when to fold...
...unseemly thoughts. According to a survey by the Munich newspaper Abendzeitung, Bavarians who vilify traffic officers as damischer Bullen (stupid bull) are fined an average of $1,710. Some less costly imprecations include Raubritter (robber baron) at $1,140, Depp (idiot) at $513 and Stinkstiefel (smelly boot), a relative bargain...