Word: bargainers
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...Bush begins to bargain away parts of his agenda in order to compromise with Democrats, he may find himself with a bigger problem in his party. Conservative congressional Republicans have held their tongues through the campaign, rarely complaining about the distance Bush keeps from them. But that won't last if Bush wins and the G.O.P. retains control of Congress. "Tom DeLay gets the joke," says a senior Bush adviser, referring to the House G.O.P.'s enforcer. "He knows that if Bush wins, he'll be sitting with his feet up on the Truman balcony [with the President...
...upside-down world when your Vice President takes your marital infidelity more personally than your wife does. Friends say the Gores were dumbstruck by Clinton's reckless dalliance. Hillary's long-standing bargain with her husband might not have sanctioned extramarital affairs, but their life together taught her how to survive them. Tipper, who danced so merrily with Hillary at the '92 convention, took to mumbling that Monica was younger than her own daughter and virtually vanished from the scene...
...Even more old-fashioned is that for all her hard squints into the typewriter to get the story right, she made the Big Bargain. She could breeze through the halls of power, even in her 20s, and she could phone the President because - paging Dr. Freud - she was beautiful. And she knew how to work her beauty as well as her stopwatch. Just listen to one of the letters to her parents about the events lined up for the week ahead. "Monday I will be with Senator Scoop Jackson for dinner. Tuesday Senator Keating has invited me to a party...
...four-member NLRB ruled that "graduate assistants perform services under the control and direction of the Employer" and thus have "statutory rights to organize and bargain with their employer...
...Suddenly everybody's a tech-stock bargain hunter as investors decided Tuesday they'd had enough of the blues and bought the NASDAQ up 177 points by the close. Cisco cleared its personal floor of $50 again, Oracle hit $34, and dot-commers Expedia and eToys got a few bonus points for losing less money than everybody expected. Is this the floor of floors...