Word: dickered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...principally because it offered opportunities for sensationalism. Nevertheless, the film displays an attitude toward sex that is more wholesome than the merely sniggering spirit that prevails in many a movie; and for those who can stand the straight talk, it provides a memorable exhibition of legal bicker and dicker, infight and outrage...
Scare the Guests. As the bold Brown strategists see things, Brown must, as a minimum, keep the Golden State's massive delegation in hand until the right candidate comes along, or until Brown can dicker for the vice-presidential nomination. But when they let their dreams balloon, they note that 1) the Democratic convention will be in Los Angeles, Brown's front yard, 2) the Democratic convention is threatened by deadlock. So why not California's Pat Brown for President? Brown has agreed that he would accept a draft...
...where will the $600 million bankroll come from? Ghana, which enjoys a trade surplus as the world's biggest producer of cocoa, can ante up $70 million. This month it will send a team of ministers to Washington to dicker with the World Bank and U.S. foreign-aiders, who regard Ghana as a first-rate investment risk. Says Aluminium Ltd. of Canada, which has rights to Ghana's major bauxite reserves and sees the Volta plan as an eventual certainty: "We would be interested in forming a consortium with U.S. firms to develop the project...
Cowboys & Oil. Fox intends either to build up the whole area through its Fox Realty Corp. or to develop 25% of it and sell off the rest to another developer for a capital gain. The moviemaker, which has still to raise the cash for the project, has started to dicker with at least five "interested" insurance companies, and one is considering putting up $50 million. Fox's lot-half of which it bought from oldtime Film Cowboys Tom Mix and Buck Jones, who used it to stable their horses-is the largest piece of underdeveloped real estate...
...headquarters, an oak-paneled chamber in rich Louis XIV style, a painting of the late Pius XI behind his desk. Often he would gather aides to listen on earphones as he telephoned subsidiaries on every continent, suavely speaking in all major languages, a trader who could charm dictators and dicker deals in every monetary exchange...