Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SENTENCED. GIORGIO ARMANI, 62, fashion designer; to a 20-day suspended jail term under a plea bargain on charges involving an alleged $197,000 bribe to tax police; in Milan...
...sudden, Bill Gates, Harvard's most famous dropout, has coughed up $25 million for, guess what, a new computer science/engineering building. Now many of you may think I'm implying that Satan somehow persuaded Gates to carry out Satan's side of the unholy bargain allegedly made so many years ago behind a closed office door. But the answer is not that complex. The simple fact is that Bill Gates is not a tool of the antichrist. He is, in fact, the antichrist himself. And all the proof this journalist needs is contained within an e-mail chain letter...
...expects Archer-Daniels- Midland to change its advertising slogan from "Supermarket to the World" to "Price Fixer to the World." But that sobriquet would fit in the wake of the agribusiness giant's $100 million plea bargain last week with the Justice Department...
...plea bargain turned ADM (1995 sales: $12.7 billion) into an informer for the government. In exchange for immunity, company officials agreed to become witnesses against other firms under investigation for conspiring with ADM to rig prices in the $1.2 billion citric-acid market...
...plea bargain was a public humiliation for Dwayne Andreas, a political insider who has funneled millions in corporate contributions to Republican and Democratic candidates. Andreas has particularly close ties to Bob Dole, who has used ADM corporate planes for campaign trips and vacationed with Andreas in Bal Harbour, Florida; Dole and his wife Elizabeth purchased an apartment there from Andreas. Dole has championed myriad agricultural subsidies that have benefited ADM. With Dole's support, Washington has paid out more than $6 billion in subsidies since 1980 for ethanol, the corn-based fuel that ADM makes; it holds a 65% share...