Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stern and Mary Beth Whitehead for her to bear his baby may stand as the oddest example). Problems of conscience do not crop up when you pay someone to deliver your paper or your pizza, or to answer your phone. Something is sought, someone is compensated, and if the bargain is just, so seem the ethics...
...promoting their films, independents avoid the mass-market techniques employed by major studios. Instead, they aim for bargain exposure to specific audiences. A Room with a View, for example, based on the E.M. Forster novel, was screened last year for a Chicago convention of English teachers, who were encouraged to use the film as a study aid for their students. Waiting for the Moon, a new film about Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas starring Linda Hunt, will be screened for feminist groups and advertised in gay newspapers...
...history and the minutiae perceived by individuals caught in its rush keeps Persian Nights holding steady, well above the level of conventional romance. In lesser hands, the novel could easily have been called something like A Doctor's Wayward Wife in Iran, and been far more marketable in the bargain. But Johnson, 52, an English professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a collaborator with Stanley Kubrick on the screenplay of The Shining, has found a middle ground between sensationalism and high seriousness. Chloe Fowler's good intentions provide a fascinating vantage point for the clash of irreconcilable cultures...
...monthly cost of ordinary local telephone service has long been a bargain subsidized by comparatively heavy charges levied on long-distance callers. Now the bargain may be slashed. Last week a seven-member panel of federal and state telephone regulators recommended to the Federal Communications Commission the phasing in over the next two years of a $1.50-a-month increase in the $2 subscriber line fee charged to households and small businesses across the country. The hike would be used in part to lower long-distance charges by as much as $17 billion over the next six years...
...everyone who has bitter memories of the oil shocks of the 1970s, when the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries drove oil prices to intolerable heights, today's bargain-basement values seem like sweet vengeance indeed. The U.S. has learned once again to love cheap energy, and why not? Gasoline and home-heating fuels are in plentiful supply. Inexpensive oil helped keep * inflation last year at its lowest level in 25 years, sent interest rates to nine-year troughs and aided in sustaining a four-year-old economic expansion...