Word: bargainers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...efforts have been executed with such sensitivity. As herders lose animals and income, some communities have been scheduled for "ecological emigration," moved by the government from their native areas to less distressed land and, in the bargain, put in training programs to learn new trades. In Xinjiang, another remote province due west of Inner Mongolia, some 600,000 of the region's one million herders are scheduled to be switched to farming or blue-collar jobs by 2010. In Inner Mongolia, human rights groups have criticized the relocations, saying that sticking herders into unfamiliar jobs only exacerbates the poverty everyone...
...head to head with serum companies since he arrived six months ago, hitting the dairies and villages with competitive offers for calves. The rangy 48-year-old, who has a salt-and-pepper moustache and shock of white hair, says he thinks he's offering the farmers a good bargain, but the deals he makes have got to be win-win. "We're here to do a service and to make money," he says. "We're not over here for our health, or I wouldn't be breathing smog...
Last Tuesday, Jarret A. Zafran ’09 was reportedly asked to leave the Harvard Coop after recording the prices of six books required for his social studies junior tutorial. His story is not unique. Other bargain-hunting students have reported similar experiences. Most notably, on Thursday, the Coop called Cambridge police on ISBN-copying students gathering data for CrimsonReading.org, but the police refused to take action...
...cost of comparison shopping, of compiling the list of needed books (either via syllabi or illegal note-taking at the Coop) and trolling though sites like Amazon—explaining why many still end up shopping at the Coop. Yet since Crimson Reading had streamlined and greatly expedited bargain hunts, many now find it unreasonable that the Coop has complicated the process by forbidding the collection of ISBNs. In short, if you do not want to undergo the burdens of comparison shopping—sans the shortcuts of Crimson Reading and taking notes at the Coop—then...
...Iran's leaders may well be holding out for the sort of "grand bargain" that appears to underlie the recent deal with North Korea, where part of the price for denuclearization was tacit security guarantees for its regime. That's an option the current debate suggests is unlikely to be embraced the Bush Administration in the case of Iran. But if President Bush plans to put a stop to Iran's nuclear program by any means necessary before he leaves office, the sense of crisis will have to be sharply escalated in order to convince a war-weary American public...