Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vacations three, four, even five weeks long. And their finals are before vacation. There's a tradeoff involved. We sacrifice a long, tension-free vacation. In exchange, we are supposed to receive a two-week reading period. Having little choice in the matter, we kept our end of the bargain. But the university cheated, stealthily stealing four days which should have been ours. It's hardly worth having finals after vacation for just a week and a half of extra work time...
...most immediate impetus for the development of the jet is military: the space plane could carry Star Wars nuclear defense weapons into orbit. It is also designed to compete with NASA's space shuttle, lifting payloads into orbit for less than $100 a pound. That would be a bargain compared with the shuttle's fee of $2,000 a pound...
...they really can bring people together with similar interests, then it's a tremendous bargain," DeVore said...
...issued a challenge: "America, go for it." But the sweeping effort to slash rates by eliminating major tax breaks was eyed warily by a Congress that often seems beholden to special-interest groups. In the House, Reagan formed an awkward alliance with Rostenkowski, who proceeded to bargain with colleagues to produce a bill that preserved the thrust of the President's proposal but was speckled with special favors designed to make it politically palatable...
...human face appears in Wild California: Vanishing Lands, Vanishing Wildlife by A. Starker Leopold and Raymond F. Dasmann (University of California; 144 pages; $29.95). A different breed of actors, seldom seen on Rodeo Drive, populates this sumptuous bargain of a book. San Joaquin kit foxes, yellow- bellied marmots, California bighorn sheep and mountain lions patrol the high mountains and hidden valleys; bald eagles and hawks, herons and condors find their lonesome rookeries. Some of Tupper Ansel Blake's photographs--a grove of bishop pines at Point Reyes, the promontories of Santa Cruz Island fading into the mist--evoke Japanese prints...