Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Televised courses can be a bargain for financially strapped schools. A district may pay as much as $8,000 for a satellite dish, cordless phones and the electronic keypads or computer terminals needed for students to communicate with their long-distance teachers. That one-time outlay amounts to far less than a conventional teacher's annual salary. Like network anchors, video teachers submit to screen tests and often conduct their classes without a studio audience...
...February Quartzsite plays host to the largest gem and mineral exhibition in the country. And there's an abundance of flea markets, where a person can buy, among other things, crocheted cowboy hats, petrified dinosaur manure, pet ID tags, Whitt's "hillbilly" billfold and racoon-penis earrings -- all at bargain prices...
...generate significantly more revenues with one simple move: raising the laughably low entrance fees charged tourists. Tombs, for example, are often free, and visitors to the pyramids are charged only about $1.25. There are plans to double that fee, but it could be doubled again and still remain a bargain...
...institute Western-style reforms. Poland could become eligible for additional World Bank and IMF loans -- but only after implementing economic restrictions, including strict wage controls, that are bound to alienate Polish workers. At the moment, neither Jaruzelski nor Walesa can afford the political price tag attached to such a bargain...
...attack earned its keep by outhustling Cornell's zone, but the Harvard defense kept its side of the bargain as well...