Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Like bargain-hungry shoppers rattling the racks at a department-store sale, foreigners are stocking up on American corporations and real estate. Last week the Commerce Department reported that overseas investors spent $65 billion on U.S. assets last year, up from $40.3 billion in 1987. The Government noted a pronounced jump in large transactions: the number of foreign investments worth more than $1 billion doubled from six to twelve...
...progressive, just realistic," Hiattsays. "We've been in the child care business for18 years now." At Stride Rite, unions have not hadto bargain for child care because of Hiatt'sinitiatives. "We've never been approached by aunion [about child care]," Hiatt says. "It's neverbeen a union issue. It's been a management issue...
...theme in the propaganda of the Communists as they swept to victory in China in 1949. The police state would also be a welfare state. For 71 years in the Soviet Union and for 40 years in China, the state has failed to deliver on its end of the bargain. It has provided plenty of police but not much welfare...
...China "have done great damage to the Hong Kong people's confidence in the Basic Law." A preoccupied Beijing canceled a scheduled visit to the colony by Ji Pengfei, who heads China's office of Hong Kong and Macao affairs. Once discussions resume, Hong Kong is certain to bargain harder than ever for protection of its rights...
...copies of which were bought last year, is the product of Government statisticians, with backgrounds ranging from economics to political science, who pore over newspapers and scientific treatises to unearth facts. They rely on more than 200 sources and spend a year putting together a single volume, at a bargain-basement cost of $600,000. Naturally, the authors are looking forward to the huge 1990 census, with its treasure trove of information. Updated data from that survey should begin to appear in the 1991 edition. If one obscure fact or another happens to be missing from the volume, which costs...