Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan Administration may be eager to achieve a clear technical edge, but during the past four decades such strategic leads have always proved temporary. By the time the other side catches up and serious negotiations begin, the investments in the new weapons are so swollen that striking a bargain is all but impossible. It would have been far simpler to negotiate nuclear arms control in the early 1950s, when the technology was primitive and the arsenals dinky, or in the early 1960s, before ICBMs had proliferated. Similarly, it would be easier to bargain and control space weapons right away than...
...month later, the new Soviet leader, Yuri Andropov, made a live television address that in effect presented this offer. The British and French governments rejected the idea that their nuclear weapons should be on the table in Geneva at; all the superpowers, they said, had no license to bargain over the independent deterrents of other countries. But to many West Europeans, Andropov's proposal sounded Like a major concession. It also amounted to a tacit admission that the Soviets already had a large excess...
...exchange for cancellation of the Pershing II ballistic-missile and Tomahawk cruise-missile programs. Paradoxically, that idea had originated among leftwingers in West Germany. Earlier in the year, National Security Adviser Allen had publicly derided "pacifist" elements in Western Europe who, he said, "believe that we can bargain the reduction of a deployed Soviet weapons system for a promise not to deploy our own offsetting system. Common sense, as well as the long history of arms negotiations with the Soviet Union, tells us this is illusory...
...victim's father, William Masselli, 56, owned an excavating company that over five years did $11 million worth of work for Donovan's firm. Now serving a seven-year sentence for cocaine trafficking and receiving stolen goods, Masselli is said to be considering a bargain with authorities: early release from prison, perhaps, in exchange for talking under oath about his extraordinarily lucrative dealings with Schiavone. If he told all he knew, the senior Masselli once bragged, he could "bury" Donovan...
...perplexities with words-and with such other languages as sex, politics and food-Bradbury suggests that life is rather like a monetary system. It can proceed only by a kind of barter, a series of provisional transactions aimed at "making a trade, finding an equivalent, striking a bargain, forging a value...