Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Participants in the press conference say they will also ask the University to bargain in good faith with Ephraim Isaac, a former assistant professor in the Afro-Am department, who is suing Harvard for racial discrimination because the University did not grant him tenure...
...Lewis as a partial defense of the College's current practice, is absurd on its face. An investigative body must operate on the assumption that it has the power to get its suspects to tell the truth. To act otherwise is to make every case a plea bargain, in which Harvard makes a major concession at the start of a case, merely in return for the professor's decision to tell the truth. The College should act with the assumption that its faculty members are at the minimum, truthful, and that their lies can be detected...
That sounds to us like a great bargain, one that would not be weakened substantially by the additional expenditure of $50,000 to safeguard human lives. Such a grant might also spur other private donations to improve Arboretum safety. The University should recognize its responsibility to local residents, and again put aside its austere accounting principles in favor of common sense...
...Argentina's mainland airbases. But the more cautious members of her inner circle, notably Foreign Secretary Pym and Deputy Prime Minister William Whitelaw, are anxious to keep the avenues for a diplomatic solution open to the very end. They also fear heavy British casualties. Accordingly, they made a bargain with Thatcher, trading their support of her tough stand on the question of Falklands sovereignty for her acquiescence to the step-by-step invasion. Says a senior British Cabinet minister: "On this basis we will enter this fray as a united Cabinet...
...with a constructive counterproposal; 2) whether the Reagan Administration is prepared to make substantial compromises in the negotiations for an eventual agreement; and 3) whether the Congress will continue to support the Administration's extremely expensive defense plans, which constitute the "or-else" inducement for the Soviets to bargain...