Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about deportation fears for the rest of their lives. Of course, they will receive a special identification card to prove their status; any legal worker in this country, immigrant or not, will have to prove their "19" status at the will of the authorities. That was part of the bargain...
...bargain was the Immigration Reform Act passed in 1986. It sacrificed greater vigilance against illegal aliens for what was considered a generous amnesty offer, provided the aliens registered by May 1988. But only a brave 6 percent of the expected applicants had taken advantage of the offer by November, the halfway point. Illegal immigrants, especially non-English speaking ones, are scared; for them the INS is an institution set up to prosecute them, to return them to places where they would be in great danger...
...extent of the Gonzaga art treasures was revealed in the mid-17th | century, a period marking the clan's decline. Smelling a credit crunch, dealers alighted in Mantua to bargain for works by Michelangelo, Raphael, Caravaggio, Veronese and Van Dyke. Simon estimates that 700 paintings by these and other masters were sold, and eventually found various ways into the world's museums. One immovable prize was the Gonzaga pleasure palace at Te, the walls and ceilings of which bloomed with mural paintings that were forerunners of the mannerist style...
...released Beverly Hills Cop on cassette in 1985 at $29.95. But when Beverly Hills Cop II arrives in the stores this month, it will sell for $89.95. Paramount executives explain that they are simply being selective about which films they target as probable big sellers, and thus candidates for bargain prices. Says Bob Klingensmith, president of Paramount's video division: "You don't have a Top Gun every month...
...something else to think about in addition to Israel's internal dilemma: the refusal of a single Palestinian leader to renounce the desire for Israel's destruction. Arafat dances around: "Who will I negotiate with, ghosts? If I say now I recognize Israel, what will I have to bargain with...