Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dance floor. Impressive crowd for three in the afternoon. Mostly old people. Here and there one partner looks so infirm it must be like dancing with a bedpost, but it doesn't seem to cramp the active one, who twirls like a top, shaking a mean leg in the bargain...
...Only after the fact did Shultz learn that former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane and North had traveled to Tehran in May 1986 in a vain effort to free all U.S. hostages. Even then, Shultz was not told that missile parts had been part of the aborted bargain...
...year is 1780. Sir Henry Clinton, commander of the British forces attempting to put down the rebellion in the 13 American colonies, has received a startling and welcome bit of news. General Benedict Arnold may be willing to betray the revolutionary cause and, in the bargain, to arrange for the surrender of his stronghold at West Point. Sir Henry needs a liaison between himself and Arnold to conduct negotiations both delicate and possibly dangerous; the task falls to Clinton's adjutant, Major John Andre. Arnold's treason is a familiar story, but British Journalist Anthony Bailey retells it from...
...bargain-basement suits and button-down, short-sleeve shirts, Dukakis offers the Democrats neither charisma nor quixotic causes. Instead, he is running as the Lee Iacocca of state government: the Governor who brought the Massachusetts economy back from the dead. True, a Harvard study concluded that, at most, state government "may have helped sustain the growth once it began." And even Frank Keefe, Dukakis' secretary of administration and finance, claims only that the Governor's policies are responsible for 20% of the drop in state unemployment...
...cavernous store in the Washington suburb of Dale City, Va., thousands of shoppers lined up last week with box-laden carts at a battery of check-out counters. A supermarket perhaps? Or a Toys "R" Us store? No, these bargain hunters were buying furniture. The boxes of all shapes and sizes contained build-it-yourself kits for assembling everything from chairs to cabinets. It may seem an odd way to furnish a house, but not to the throngs of customers who were grabbing, hauling and finally staggering out of the store...