Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During Healy's review meeting, the council went into executive session, barring the public and press. Councilors who voted for the executive session said that it was necessary to bargain with Healy candidly and to discuss Healy's performance...
...series of meetings between Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze at the U.N. in New York City uncovered the outlines of a potential bargain: Daniloff would be released quickly and probably without any trial on what the U.S. regards as trumped-up espionage charges against him. Zakharov would be traded later for one or more Soviet dissidents. The expulsion of the 25 Soviets at the U.N. remains a sticking point...
...went far beyond the fates of Daniloff and Zakharov, and even beyond the prospect of another chance for Reagan to sit by a fireplace with Gorbachev. The goal that suddenly seemed in sight was a potentially important breakthrough in arms control. Both sides have been quietly inching toward a bargain on the highly charged issue of intermediate- range nuclear forces, one that for the first time would significantly reduce -- rather than just set a ceiling on -- the number of nuclear weapons. At the U.N. last week, Reagan and Shevardnadze raised hopes for a quick agreement; in ( Geneva, Soviet and American...
...Soviets can hear the American political clock ticking too: they cannot be sure the President elected in 1988 will be as willing to deal as Reagan has become or will have the enormous popularity that would enable Reagan to sell a bargain to the U.S. public. Gorbachev seems eager for an arms deal of some kind: he might suffer a heavy propaganda defeat if he refused to go to a summit, but he has vowed repeatedly not to be put off again with a smile and a handshake as he was in Geneva. In recent days the Soviets seem...
...Harvard patrolmen do a good job protecting all of us. Under contract provisions which are standard for police unions, the patrolmen are barred from striking, picketting or taking job actions which would threaten the public safety. All they can do is bargain with the University in good faith. Harvard should do the same...