Word: bargainer
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...held by Palestinians during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, Jerusalem granted freedom to 1,150 mostly Palestinian prisoners, including 167 convicted terrorists. Though the trade was not a hostage deal, some critics charged that the inclusion of terrorists damaged the credibility of Israel's insistence that it would not bargain with enemies who attack civilians. Amid widespread feeling that another such swap would completely undermine the no-deal rule, some 50,000 Israelis staged an angry protest march in downtown Tel Aviv. Some carried signs urging Peres not to free the detainees under any circumstances. Jerusalem is also enmeshed...
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was in Europe at a NATO meeting, so National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane was dispatched to Dole's office on Capitol Hill to bargain with Nunn. Despite the aggressive lobbying effort, the Administration gave in to Nunn's insistence on only twelve additional missiles in fiscal '86. The twelve to be produced will give the Air Force a total of 54 MX's. Of those, 50 can be deployed and four used either as spares or test vehicles. Under the compromise, the Air Force can order production of twelve to 21 more MX's in fiscal...
Convinced that his action was justified, Gilbert refused to plea-bargain and left his fate in the hands of a ten-woman, two-man Broward County jury. No one was more surprised than he when it returned after four hours of deliberation with a first- degree murder verdict. "I still don't feel like I committed a crime," Gilbert said afterward. "This just shows that the laws have to be changed...
Sweat-suited and sneaker-footed, with pedometers clipped firmly at waists, they appear, sometimes before dawn, and slip quietly through the shopping-mall entrance with a wave to smiling guards. Early-bird bargain hunters? Well, no. These are not sales stalkers but a growing breed of fitness faddists, the mall walkers...
...from Europe to the U.S. and back again. Little Gloria became a piece of human luggage, shuttled from country places to castles, possessed by magical thoughts: "If I stayed still enough, the motor would start. If I held my breath, the front door would not open . . . I made a bargain with myself not to cry, and then the coach would glide away, away from the grey house where nobody lived, away away away...