Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revealed that the Pentagon had paid $84 million more than necessary for the expensive and useless weapon. The study was released by Oregon's Republican Congressman Denny Smith, a fierce opponent of DIVAD. According to the report, the Pentagon was too concerned with producing the weapon swiftly to bargain carefully with the manufacturer, the Ford Aerospace and Communications Corp. of Newport Beach, Calif., a division of Ford Motor Co. Said Smith: "Not only are we buying a DIVAD that doesn't work; the taxpayers are being ripped off by excessive charges...
Those pay provisions seem to represent a victory for GM. Said Alfred Nelson, an industry analyst with Wall Street investment firm Becker-Paribas: "GM has clearly got the better part of the bargain. The settlement is yet another indication of the shift of power from labor to management...
Even though 62,700 of the company's 350,000 workers were involved in the selective strike action, GM and the U.A.W. continued to bargain through the weekend at General Motors headquarters in Detroit. The company had originally offered a lump-sum payment of $600 per worker in the first year of the contract and a $300 one in the second, in addition to a rather vague plan to protect existing jobs. The union pushed for an improvement of both offers, and by late in the week the differences between the two sides were narrowing. Once an agreement...
...pursue a life of virtue and piety, the boy in exchange requests that God grant him the talent to create immortal music. When a sudden turn of events finds the peasant boy installed as the king's composer, Salieri assumes that the heavenly powers have agreed to the bargain...
...begun to get the idea. In the past year, the University has cut three separate deals with major manufacturers to bring personal computers to students and faculty at cut-rate prices. Students have been beating each other over the heads to get a hold of one of the bargain basement Apple Macintoshes, and officials say sales of the other brands are going briskly too. No one is talking of blowing all the stuff in the Science Center out of the water tomorrow, but almost all the educational and administrative plans you hear about computers on campus today are based...