Word: bargainers
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...point. The point is, final clubs, while made up of individually nice guys, become entities of enormous cruelty, stupidity and tastelessness. It is truly a case of the whole being more than the sum of its parts. No member is Mephistopheles, but they have all made a Faustian bargain; their honor and integrity for acceptance into the hippest social scene at Harvard...
...Graduate students' newfound ability to unionize at NYU should open the door for a similar extension of rights at many other private universities. Yale, for example, where graduate students have long awaited this privilege, should now allow its graduate students to collectively bargain which they can demand better compensation, housing and benefits, all of which have been consistently poor at many universities...
Given that pledge, the fans must hold up their end of the bargain as well. In times of national crisis, you don't question your government for raising taxes to fund the war effort. So must it be now with the Red Sox. As long as the team keeps its word and spends everything that comes into its coffers on personnel, everyone ought pay his fair share...
This confluence of events points to one conclusion: Global warming is happening, and no one wants to do anything about it. More accurately, no country wants to do anything about it if it loses any money in the bargain. The issue of fairness led to the most contentious debates at the meeting the just ended in the Netherlands...
...necessary majority. Once again the choice went to the House. This time, with the support of Henry Clay, a contender who had dropped out of the contest, Adams won on the first ballot--and soon made Clay his Secretary of State. The 1824 crisis produced charges of a "corrupt bargain" that facilitated Jackson's election...