Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President had no illusion that Moscow would embrace this idea or even bargain seriously about it for many months. His real purpose was to prevent a potentially disastrous split between the U.S. and its NATO allies. Under pressure from a noisy antinuclear movement that regards the installation of American missiles as a dangerous escalation of the arms race (conveniently overlooking the fact that the Soviets are installing new SS-20s at the rate of one a week), West European governments have been pleading with Washington to show more flexibility in the Geneva talks. Initial government and press reaction indicated that...
...craving for citrus fruit," says Kraftsow, that led her to leap over (and even limbo under) 4-ft. barbed-wire fences or bound across her 5-ft.-wide concrete cattle guard. "She was really a menace," he says. Fed up, Kraftsow sold the cow to Hayes for $350, a bargain price...
...fighting the uncapping provisions seem likely to obtain some sort of 10 to 15 year exemption from the law if, as expected, it passes. But lawmakers would be wise to go further and make this temporary exemption permanent. Tenure, unlike almost any other form of job security, is a bargain, a bargain that goes to the essence of the university. Professors get unparalleled security and independence, becoming, as Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky said, "shareholders" in an institution with history and long-term health. It is only fair that they allow the same opportunity to open for young, rising...
...course, nothing had been averted except a peaceful winter for the royals. Palace efforts to bargain with the Fleet Street scamps?a photo opportunity in exchange for privacy over the year-end holidays?dissolved in futility as the pack went hallooing off in all directions after Koo, Andrew, Charles and Diana. Koo had shown surprising staying power for a princely romance, despite speculative QUEEN BANS KOO and BUST-UP AS ANDY IS TOLD TO DROP HIS GIRL headlines in the Sun, a journal that occasionally runs its royals coverage down the side of what is called its "tits-and-bums...
...ruins of Tulum to the bikini-bright beaches of Puerto Vallarta. Since Dec. 20, when devaluation of the nation's currency more than doubled the purchasing power of the dollar, from 70 to 150 pesos per $1, Mexico has become what one tourist industry executive calls "the travel bargain of the century." Says Bronnie Kupris, president of Manhattan's Asti Mexico Tours: "Our volume is up 400% over last year." New York-based Alexander Charters sold 2,100 airline seats to Mexico from January to Easter last year; so far this year, halfway through that period, the company...