Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...level, particularly when we have invented a way of putting an end to the whole experiment, by nuclear or other weapons of mass destruction. That is what the U.N. should be all about. I maintain that my idealism, which is based on some fairly rough experience, is a great deal more realistic than the totally defeatest notion that human beings are born to suffer and kill each other. If one believes that, one should go dig a deep hole and jump into...
...work stoppages are intended to persuade Delhaize to give a better deal to its nearly 30,000 workers in its 522 Food Lion stores in the U.S. Most of those employees receive no benefits and are paid 40% less than the wages earned at rival stores, according to the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which hopes to organize the Food Lion workers. The Belgian workers plan to keep up their campaign for a year...
...free-trade deal could prove to be the key economic event of the decade for both countries. Economists have estimated that by 1999 Canada could have added 2% to 3% to its gross national product under the agreement, and the U.S. about 1% to its GNP. Equally important, the accord is expected to provide impetus for free trade globally at a time when protectionist forces are on the rise...
...sums are so vast, and so apparently out of line with any foreseeable benefits that the deal might bring to American industry, that they raise deep and disturbing doubts about the direction of U.S. business at a time when many firms lag badly in foreign competition. Seldom since the age of the 19th century robber barons has corporate behavior been so open to question. The battle for RJR Nabisco seems to have crossed an invisible line that separates reasonable conduct from anarchy...
...Some deals have fallen short of their fanfare. KKR hailed the purchase of Beatrice as the "deal of the century," but wound up getting stuck with businesses that have not yet found buyers. "Beatrice was overadvertised as a spectacular deal when it was really just a good one," said one investor. "Everybody's making money; they're just not making as much money as they thought they would, or as fast as they could...