Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Butt, cuckold, buffoon-Hirsch gives Georges Dandin the engaging dignity of self-knowledge, the man who says his own name with the rueful shake of the head that makes it ring through the play like a bell, the shrewd peasant who knows he has made a bad bargain in a wife, the naif who thinks he can prove it to the parents from whom he bought...
...C.E.D. called for still more drastic action in the "special case" of construction, where inflation has been especially virulent. It urged the National Labor Relations Board to compel building employers and unions to bargain in larger units, so that unions could no longer force inflationary settlements on small local contracting groups one by one. President Nixon, the C.E.D. said, should demand repeal of the Davis-Bacon Act, which requires payment of "prevailing" local wages on most federally assisted construction projects. In practice, that really means payment of the highest rate that any union has been able to wring...
Members of the board feel that this clause should give Corcoran little actual power in determining pay scales, and no power to bargain. "So what if he offers you 11 per cent?" said Justin Gray, one of the founders of Cambridge Model Cities. "The point is that he has no power to offer anything...
...press even before the President had seen it. With the nation's campuses in an anti-Administration uproar over the Cambodian invasion, Hickel wrote Nixon that he had failed to give the young a hearing, and was ignoring some of his Cabinet members, Hickel included, into the bargain. (Hickel took up pen only when he was denied a meeting with Nixon.) During the fall campaign, Hickel traveled more on behalf...
...administrative responsibilities. Lenzner accused Rumsfeld of "caving in" to politicians "who are determined to keep us from suing special interests close to them on behalf of the poor." Rumsfeld said Lenzner was "either unwilling or unable" to carry out OEO policies. Lenzner retorted: "The Administration apparently believes in bargain-basement justice for the poor...