Word: bargainer
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Luxury cars, once a bargain during a tour of duty in West Germany, are now beyond the reach of all but high-ranking officers: the Army registered only 136 BMW owners this year, compared with 1,044 in 1985. The 2 1/2-year waiting period for a Mercedes-Benz has shrunk to six months. "Canceled orders used to be simply unheard of," says Gottfried Plangg, of the firm's NATO sales division. "But now everybody's nixing orders placed when the dollar was high...
...between harshness and leniency. The prison term was one year longer than the sentence given last February to Investment Banker Dennis Levine, who led investigators to Boesky after confessing that he and Boesky had been part of an insider-trading ring. But Boesky, who, as part of a plea bargain, admitted to one count of lying to the Securities and Exchange Commission, could have received a five-year sentence and a $250,000 fine. Clearly the judge knocked time off because Boesky has been cooperating with investigators. Before his crimes were publicly revealed, he taped conversations with conspirators to provide...
...Waters said the store will locate women's clothing on the top floor of Corcoran's former space and that it will sell men's clothing on the first floor. She said Corcoran's old basement will house two departments called Urban Renewal and Urban Basement, a sort of "bargain basement" version of the store...
...Government may not hawk goods like a job-lot auction house, but it is becoming quite a bargain hunter. Across the U.S., law-enforcement officials are enthusiastically confiscating property acquired through criminal activity or used in committing crimes. Such seizures have become a major police weapon for squeezing crooks, especially drug dealers. During fiscal 1986, federal marshals handled $550 million in confiscated cash and property under 130 laws, a fivefold increase since...
Besides, in Moscow's thinking, the partial denuclearization of Soviet military strategy required the much more thorough denuclearization of the American military presence in Europe. Moscow might be more willing to bargain away some of its own missiles, but it was more determined than ever not to sanction the stationing of new, land-based American nuclear weapons near the Soviet border...