Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...projects from vetoes. The President, proponents would argue, should have an item veto so that he can trim away this unnecessary spending. So far so good. But suppose that a new weapons system, which the President strongly favors, comes up. He now needs votes in Congress. Ordinarily, he would bargain, compromise, appear on television, and do whatever he could to persuade congressmen and their constituents to see things...
...possible that Reagan is simply driving a hard bargain with the Kremlin, trying to squeeze concessions before agreeing to a deal. He did leave a slight opening by indicating that he would be willing to negotiate with the Soviets before deploying a space-based defense system the hope of persuading them to deploy one too. He insisted, however, not only that research and deployment would continue but that "one day" the system would be tested as well, even if it means revising the 1972 antiballistic missile treaty in order to avoid violating...
...firms did withdraw as a result of divestment, the result is not likely to cause apartheid to disappear. Instead, the departure of these firms might simply cause black unemployment without forcing the Afrikaner regime to change its policies. More likely, local interests would buy up the American facilities at bargain proces, and life would go on much as before...
Logical or not, a bargain along these lines would be exceedingly difficult to negotiate. The line between research and testing is by no means clear. The U.S. regards all 15 tests of SDI weaponry it has scheduled for the next few years as a kind of research program, to see if any of the technologies involved look feasible, rather than as developmental testing of deployable weapons. Even so, William Hyland, editor of Foreign Affairs, voiced the hope that Gorbachev's hint about accepting some research was a "beginning" and an "invitation to negotiation." Hyland's advice: when arms-control talks...
...bribe or bluster their way to a place in the sun are forced to find their own lodgings. The Soviets refer to these masses of unfortunates as dikari, literally "savages," but in this sense meaning unofficial holidaymakers. They arrive with nowhere to stay and must try to strike a bargain with locals who have a room to rent. Such private deals are strictly illegal, but they are widely tolerated. Some seaside landladies offer a fair deal, but others are hucksters conjuring up lyrical descriptions of properties that sound too good to be true. Often, they are. A Ukrainian woman found...