Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defending the bargain, Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Schatzow told reporters that it was vital to U.S. security for the Government to be able to debrief John Walker and that Walker could not be forced to talk against his will. "We need to know what is broken and what must be fixed," Schatzow said. Although the bargain had been approved by Attorney General Edwin Meese and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, Navy Secretary John Lehman attacked the deal. John and Michael Walker had committed "the gravest of all possible crimes," charged Lehman. Not giving them the maximum possible sentence, he added, sends...
...Delta Burke) talks football as if she were reading a foreign language phonetically, and the gridiron goons who surround her (a womanizing quarterback, a dumb lineman named Bubba, an oily general manager in cahoots with the Mob) are well past sitcom retirement age. The bottom drawer in comedy's bargain basement, however, belongs to the new sitcoms showing up on basic cable. WTBS's Rocky Road, for example, set in a beachfront ice cream store, trots out juvenile plots and dialogue that make Beach Blanket Bingo look like Moliere...
Along the crowded counters of Bi-Rite Photo in midtown Manhattan, bargain hunters contend not only with the usual bewildering selection of cameras and lenses but also with a choice of prices for the same item. The popular Nikon FE-2 camera, for example, costs either $279.50 or $239.50. What's the difference? Top dollar buys a camera backed by an authorized U.S. Nikon distributor. For the lower price, a buyer gets the same machine but with only Bi-Rite's guarantee...
Welcome to the world of the gray market. Embraced by bargain hunters at the same time that it is cursed by conventional retailers, the gray market thrives by selling brand-name cameras, consumer electronics, personal computers, cars and even excavators without the imprimatur of a manufacturer's authorized distributor. The products do not have either the standard warranty or the higher markup. Unlike black-market trafficking in stolen or counterfeit goods, gray-market trade is perfectly legal and has even been encouraged by the Reagan Administration...
...sold about $100 million worth of cameras, personal computers and other products through four stores and a mail-order operation. The cramped and chaotic original outlet is located in mid-Manhattan above a deli and reached by a dingy staircase. The store, though, is stuffed armpit- to-elbow with bargain hunters: pinstripe lawyers who are on their lunch hour, families in from suburban New Jersey, Japanese bankers, white-robed Egyptians, high-decibel hagglers in Spanish, Hebrew and Korean...