Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...murder happened in the most troubled of Harvard houses, under the reign of the master least equipped to deal with it," Thernstrom writes...
...Correspondents on the scene feel the two sides are nudging closer to a deal. "I think we're witnessing two battle-weary opponents," said TIME Washington correspondent Bruce Van Voorst. UPS head James Kelly signaled concessions on the pension issue yesterday, and 16 hours of talks at the Washington Hyatt hotel plus a resumption early today suggests progress. But while pensions and part-time workers remain an issue, don't expect the parcels to start flying again any time soon...
Sound dicey? TIME medical writer Christine Gorman says the deal may have already devalued the seal: "It's when money is changing hands that we start questioning the ethics behind this kind of agreement." Gorman notes that some years ago the American Heart Association launched a more ambitious endorsement plan, only to scrap it because it was too controversial. So who do you turn to for unbiased product information? Try Consumer Reports, which rejects endorsement deals, says Gorman...
Here's a better plan: San Francisco loves to congratulate itself on how progressive it is, so how about if Mayor Brown brokers a deal to address one of the great transit insanities of the universe? It costs $1 round trip to drive into San Francisco and back on the Bay Bridge but $4 and up to take Bay Area Rapid Transit. Beginning next week, every car that crosses the bridge with a lone driver should be charged $4; with two people in the car, $3; with three people, $2; and with four people, $1. With less traffic, a bridge...
Templesman, a diamond dealer with long experience in Africa, was seeking loans from the Export-Import Bank and loan guarantees from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation for a multimillion dollar diamond deal in Angola. After the meeting, a sympathetic Lake decided to intervene: he directed an NSC staff member, with approval from legal counsel, to call Ex-Im and OPIC. The message: Templesman's venture had "merit." But TIME has obtained the text of a recent letter from Angola's ambassador in Washington that bluntly asks the U.S. to stop attempts to broker a diamond deal and, in an apparent...