Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When you walk into Filene's Bargain basement of Downtown Crossing in Boston, the first thing you notice is that there are two kind of people there the initiates and the veterans...
equal and fair employment practices for all employers, including permission for Black and other non-white workers to unionize and bargain collectively on matters relating to wages and conditions of employment...
After all, an Olympian dream comes in the bargain. "I want to ski the down hill course where Bill Johnson won the gold medal," states Philadelphian John O'Neil. Though he cannot understand the words, Rizo Uzicanin recognizes the glint in the American's eye and beams at him from his stall in the old Turkish market. Such tourist fantasies are warmer to Uzicanin than the handcrafted woolens hanging from his shop front. "I've been on this corner 64 years," he says, "since I was a boy of seven with my father. We have never seen the prosperity that...
...Reaganauts are convinced that the Sandinistas will bargain in good faith only if under military pressure. "People and nations do not move to the negotiating table simply because it's a nice piece of furniture," Assistant Secretary of State Langhorne A. Motley told a congressional committee. "If anyone knows of a more effective way to create a bargaining situation with the Sandinistas, let us know." Administration officials hasten to add, however, that the U.S. has no intention of using U.S. ground forces to bring the Sandinistas to heel. "It's just not in the cards," says a White House official...
...early 1980s, Pickens began searching for riches on Wall Street, where one of the great roller-coaster rides in history was turning oil stocks into a bargain. Shares of the major petroleum producers had climbed sharply after 1979, when the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries nearly tripled the cost of oil. But then the price began dropping after 1982 as a world glut of oil developed. U.S. energy reserves, meanwhile, were dwindling. Pickens realized that oil company stocks were undervalued, and that it was both easier and smarter to get new oil reserves by taking over a company than...