Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Apple's bargain-basement Macintosh offer was by no means .an isolated instance in the sales campaign that computer manufacturers have been waging at educational institutions. Salesmen offering incentives and deep discounts are swarming around wealthy school districts. "We are bombarded daily with catalogues of software, letters and phone calls," says Torance Vandygriff, principal of the Preston Hollow Elementary School in North Dallas, which last year raised $24,000 to buy classroom computers. Atari, in a joint venture with Post Cereals, will even swap equipment for proof-of-purchase coupons clipped from breakfast-cereal boxes. The exchange rate...
Keezer's (221 Concord Ave.) has bargain prices on men's clothes ($38.50 for a tuxedo), but owner Len Goldstein resists calling them "vintage" goods, saying, "Vintage clothing stores think they can charge much more for stuff just because...
...need not prove that it is in danger of imminent collapse in order to obtain the bankruptcy court's permission to cancel a union pact. What it must show is that the labor contract unduly "burdens" its prospects for recovery and that it has made "reasonable" attempts to bargain with the union for deferred or smaller wage increases or other money saving measures. Only then can it be altogether freed by the court from its labor obligations. The court also ruled, 5 to 4, that a company may cancel its union contracts the moment it files for bankruptcy, rather...
Some would-be Apple-pickers may immediately resell their machines to entrepreneurs who have placed a recent rash of advertisements offering to strike a bargain...
...drawn-out criminal justice process. For example, it is obvious, and statistically confirmed by Bowers and Pierce, that considerations of race do indeed come into play at the indictment stage in the decisions of local prosecutors, sensitive to public opinion and the odds for success regarding whether to plea bargain or seek a capital conviction...