Word: bargainers
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...Speth, president of Washington's World Resources Institute, believes the summit could still produce his dream of a global bargain between rich and poor nations, but only if the meeting's treaties are developed during the next three years to spell out obligations, goals and monitoring. The price of failure for the world community could be a new cold war between the North and the South, warned U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali...
...such a happily unkempt man -- he wore shoulder-length hair and bargain- basement clothes, and weighed an eighth of a ton -- Gaines' death last week seemed curiously neat: he had turned 70; his creation was turning 40; an exhaustive coffee-table-book history (Completely Mad) was in the bookstores; and, as if to reaffirm Mad's relevance, the current issues of two other magazines (Esquire and Texas Monthly) feature Alfred E. Neumanesque cover caricatures of would-be Presidents (George Bush and Ross Perot). Is there any American under 50 who did not as a youth experience Mad's liberating, irreverent...
...mistake. Those kinds of bargains are not the way to deal with kidnappers. They only encourage more kidnapping. I think it made it very difficult for Reagan to convince the kidnappers that he was still a virgin, that he wasn't going to bargain with them, because he had already done it once...
...third way to add cops -- and deal with another pressing problem in the bargain -- is to retrain as police officers some of the troops being demobilized as the Pentagon cuts personnel...
TRAVEL WRITERS DO YOUR TRAVELING for you, crime writers do your murdering for % you, and food writers eat lavishly at absurd expense so that you need not bother. Such a deal -- but hark! Novelist Haughton Murphy does all this and is funny in the bargain. His hero is an elderly, retired lawyer named Reuben Frost, who keeps getting into other people's trouble. In this seventh outing in the series, A VERY VENETIAN MURDER (Simon & Schuster; $19), Frost and his wife Cynthia are taking their ease in Venice when someone murders an American dress designer. The soft-boiled detective...