Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...union extended the strike deadline twice when progress was made on some issues after two federal mediators entered the process last Monday. But it is holding firm that tomorrow's deadline is final. Union officials say the strike threat forced Yale to bargain in good faith...
Reporters promptly cornered the mayor, who proved no fan of the state liquor authority crackdown. "It's archaic, it's arcane, it's stupid," Koch fumed. "It'll raise the price of dinner. You like to get a little bargain now and then. I mean, that's what life is all about." Koch suggested that the SLA suspend its directive...
...John Tower of Texas, the ultra-hawkish chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, had become a broker. "Tower got Reagan to come down, and he got Domenici to come up," says one participant in the discussions. "He made the deal possible." The bargain between President and Senators was cut last Wednesday afternoon in the White House Cabinet Room. Reagan made what he said was his final offer: a 7.5% Pentagon increase next year. "We're all supposed to be leaders," he told his G.O.P. comrades, among them Majority Leader Howard Baker. "This is a time for leaders...
...hardly surprising that the bargain Nancy White Horse struck with me would benefit the whole tribe--"I you can get some houses built for my people--rather than herself alone. In Indian country people tend to move forward in concert. Their individual struggles become a war of all on behalf of all. Nor was it unusual that out of the tatters of her daily life she should fashion for me a gift of great beauty. That, too, went with the teritory. In a culture with few commodoties and virtually no market, generosity can florish...
...Publishing first class law review articles is the sort of staple of legal scholarship that professors are expected to produce in order to get tenure, and in order to keep up their end of the bargain," says Michael Boudin '61, a lecturer at the Law School. "It is regarded as highly attractive in the legal community to publish a first class law article," he adds...