Word: bargainings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Best Bargain. Like many another big-league ballplayer-Bob Feller, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays-Bill Mazeroski benefits from an asset even more valuable than his own hard-muscled (5 ft. 11½ in., 185 lbs.) frame: the ambitions of a baseball-frustrated father. Lewis Mazeroski, whose own baseball hopes ended when a coal-mining accident forced the amputation of part of his right foot, began playing catch with his son in the stony backyards of Ohio coal towns just as soon as young Bill could walk...
...this era of $100,000 bonuses for hot-shot high school kids who often end up in the bushes, the $4,000 paid to Bill Mazeroski for signing his contract seems more and more the best bargain Branch Rickey ever made. "Pound for dollar," says Pittsburgh Baseball Announcer Bob Prince in the lingo of the press box, "Mazeroski is far and away the most valuable chattel in the Pirate empire...
Replied Reuther: "The company has refused to bargain, to arbitrate, to mediate. The company will get nowhere by the continuation of their nonsense." Then he took a swipe at the automaker's profits: "They have been fleecing the public...
...National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which also bought millions of doses of the vaccine, got its vaccine at 30? to 35? per dose. But this bore no relation to costs. The foundation drove a hard bargain because it had guaranteed to buy the vaccine even before it knew the vaccine was successful, had poured $22.4 million into 17 years of research that produced the vaccine...
With rough stuff and great patience, Ergil teaches his slow learners math, and in the bargain teaches them something of self-respect. Said one newly awakened child: "I want .to learn more about everything." When Ergil persuaded school officials to let him try to teach his backward youngsters algebra next year, there were twice as many volunteers from the slow learners as he could handle. Said Principal Baker-of the algebra project: "I don't believe it can be done, but if anyone can do it, he can." With an eye to state programs for low-IQ children...