Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Star Warshippers since the last movie, Return of the Jedi, hit theaters in 1983 (Fox released the original films but has no rights to any sequels). Lucas is now working on a three-part prequel. A source close to Lucas says he believes he can make the pictures at bargain prices by current Hollywood standards. The goal is to hold budgets at around $70 million, a feat that would be accomplished by using little-known actors and a lot of the computer wizardry that Lucas develops so brilliantly. Sets are already under construction in warehouses outside London. The release date...
...want to upgrade it, Micro Center is the first place to turn. They have a selection of video cards, hard drives, monitors and other accessories unmatched in the Boston area, and their prices tend to be as low as mail-order outlets. You can often drive a better bargain by haggling with the sales clerks, and you can save 10 or 20 percent off retail prices by purchasing a returned or demo model...
...your heart set on a notebook computer, drop by Laptop Superstore (Mass Ave., near Porter Sq.) They carry a wide variety of machines by all the top manufacturers, and all their systems come with a unique 5-year worldwide warranty at no extra charge. Laptop Superstore also has a "bargain basement" in the same location, a good place to look if you want an inexpensive used or discontinued portable computer to complement your desktop...
...race for a new three-year auto contract shifted into high gear last week, when the United Auto Workers union chose Ford, currently the most labor-friendly of Detroit's Big Three employers, as the company it will bargain with first. The contract covering 400,000 autoworkers at the Big Three manufacturers expires this Saturday. The U.A.W. always zeroes in on one company in divide-and-conquer fashion, but in a break with four decades of tradition, the union has toned down its normally strident rhetoric and declined to set a strike deadline. Industry watchers expect the U.A.W. and Ford...
...been accused of a crime and was not even mentioned when three rival companies agreed to settle price-fixing charges last week. But the Justice Department clearly had its sights on Archer-Daniels-Midland, the politically powerful Illinois grain processor, when it accepted sweeping plea-bargain deals with three companies accused of fixing the price of the feed additive lysine. The companies--Ajinomoto and Kyowa Hakko Kogyo of Japan, and the U.S. arm of South Korea's Sewon--agreed to cooperate with prosecutors and pay a total of $20 million in fines to settle the case...