Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...given the Israelis a buffer against a traditional enemy and had provided a new frontier for adventurous young settlers. Under the terms of Camp David, the Israelis had agreed to surrender the Sinai in three stages in return for a peace treaty with Egypt. It was a good bargain for both sides. But in the weeks before the final withdrawal, the Israelis worried about the strength of their new ties with Egypt. They wondered whether the treaty signed with such enthusiasm by the late Anwar Sadat would mean as much to his successor Hosni Mubarak...
Although tiny Kuwait is one of the nations that have driven up world petroleum prices since 1973, its own citizens have been paying bargain prices for their fuel. Drivers of the country's 500,000 cars could fill their tanks with 90-octane gasoline for 19? per gal., while diesel fuel sold for 7.5?. The state-owned Kuwait National Petroleum Co. sold the products for less than their cost. Last week, however, Kuwait's motorists awoke to find gasoline prices had nearly tripled, to 53? per gal. for the 90-octane blend. Diesel fuel now costs...
Boston fans no longer have their hometown horse to watch this afternoon. Timely Writer, the Filene's Basement bargain colt owned and raced by two area meat merchants, came under the knife himself last week. An operation for an inflamed intestine saved the winter dazzler from an un-Timely death, but it also placed him on the sidelines for today's race. Trainer Dominic Imprescia, who dressed to match the pink flamingos at Hialeah for the Florida Derby, will be wearing black during the Run for the Roses...
...Palestinians is questionable, cannot afford to risk the animosity of the Soviets or the other Arab states by entering into a meaningful peace process with Israel that would guarantee Israel security. And Begin has staked too much domestically on Camp David and the West Bank to be able to bargain with the PLO and keep his tenuous hold on parliam0entary power...
...reflex in the United States has been to excoriate Israel on all fronts. But it is eminently hypocritical for a country which likes to bargain from a position of strength with its supposedly mortal enemies to condemn Israel for doing the same with its tangibly mortal enemies. Little attention and even less presciences to Camp David specifically and the Middle East generally has permitted the situation to deteriorate at a time when it should be improving...