Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...airing so many reruns. In a lawsuit filed about 15 months ago against 20th Century Fox Film Corp., Alda and Gelbart--both profit participants--charged that Fox has exploited M*A*S*H by selling reruns to its local stations and then to its own cable station FX at bargain-basement prices compared with what it charges non-Fox-owned stations. Fox apparently contends it charged fair-market prices. But one source maintains the loss in M*A*S*H money is "tens of millions of dollars," part of it owed to the duo. Gelbart resolved the matter (translation: financial...
...other Harvard unions speculate that 254 accepted such a bargain because the alternative was losing their jobs due to outsourcing...
...Universities have a sense of being special as employers, but their conduct belies that idea," he says. "Universities don't take it very easy in bargaining. They bargain in a very hard-nosed...
...there is a deeper reason that the Louima case doesn't necessarily portend a slowdown in attempts to cover up police brutality. Call it the white wall of silence--the implicit bargain that Giuliani, like the mayors of many cities, has made with his mostly white core political supporters. They reckon that voters will tolerate heavy-handed police tactics as long as they don't have to see them; that most nonwhites, especially young males, are considered suspect, and that wholesale violations of their civil liberties are an acceptable price to pay for a drop in the crime rate. That...
...what that something was may be hard to pinpoint. Of the six launch fiascoes, three involved new, profit-driven rockets: the bulked-up Delta 3, with twice the lift-off muscle of its Delta 2 ancestor; and the Athena 2, a smaller rocket with less propulsive oomph but a bargain price tag. The most recent Titan flub appears to involve misfirings of the rocket's upper stage, a $1.23 billion mistake that may have been caused by badly loaded software. Other miscues have included everything from an electrical short, which caused another Titan to explode, to faulty guidance, which similarly...