Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...granddaughter have resided in a dilapidated two-car garage in Lynwood, Calif. Patches of dirt blotch the linoleum floor, electrical wires snake along bare walls, a door opens to a reeking kitchen dominated by a blackened stove. At $300 a month it is, alas, almost a bargain. "Nothing is affordable," says Gonzales, 42, whose daughter is on welfare and whose son-in-law lost his job as a handyman. "We had to settle for this...
...Bargain hunters are heading south of the border for surprisingly good medical care. -- Does blood doping work for jocks...
...transform Primerica into a financial powerhouse. Since he joined Primerica, the company has shed more than 25 businesses and acquired 15 others. In snaring Smith Barney (1986 revenues: about $1.1 billion), Tsai paid double the assessed value of the firm's assets, which Wall Street analysts called a bargain...
Want "a cash reserve for anything you want, whenever you want it," as New York's Dime Savings Bank promises? Or "a real bargain," courtesy of California First? Those are the kinds of advertising claims that are wafting these days around banking's hottest product, the home-equity loan. A boomlet of sorts is under way as customers respond with enthusiasm to this form of consumer debt, while lenders vie frantically for customers and market share. But amid the rush, cautionary voices are warning about the dangers of the popular loans, and the misleading nature of some of the hype...
...auction artifact better symbolized the excesses of Bakkerdom than the air-conditioned doghouse that Tammy had built at their lakeside home. Among the 1,000 bargain-hunting fans on hand at Fort Mill was a California contractor who bought the doghouse for $4,500, and then donated it back to PTL so it could be resold for $600, this time to a Pennsylvania railroad worker. Other notable transactions: $27,000 for a restored 1927 Franklin automobile, $10,500 for a 25-ft. boat. So mountainous is the miscellany that a second auction will be held on July...