Word: bargaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...England, for $90 in the Middle West, hovers between $150 and $200 near the big East Coast cities, and has climbed to $225 in Manhattan. (Artificial logs made of sawdust and paraffin, and sold at most supermarkets, can be dangerous if used in woodburning stoves, and are no great bargain at about $1.40 for a three-hour log.) Still, even half a cord of firewood stacked in a garage is a comforting source of emergency heat for buz zards and supply interruptions. When a 32-mile stretch of Virginia's Skyline Drive was opened up to wood collectors...
...hostages. Said he: "I don't think that the Americans are concerned very much about the fate of the hostages. They have seized this opportunity to isolate our revolution. If they achieve this objective at the expense of the hostages, they will have paid, from their viewpoint, a bargain price...
...quotes can be a lazy device, enabling him to imply that he has talked to a higher authority than he really has. At worst, without putting his own good name at risk, an official may be floating a trial balloon, scoring off a rival or planting wrong information. The bargain may seem an evenhanded one-my increased candor in exchange for your protecting my identity-but it isn't. A strange transference takes place: the responsibility for the authenticity of what is said shifts from the speaker to the person who prints and guarantees it. Editors...
...Elis took her up on the offer. Less than a minute into the third stanza the Yale icewomen came through with their half of the bargain. And though the Crimson did manage to slip three goals past Mendoza, the Bulldogs exploded for four more to hang...
Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, confided that the one present he could be bribed with is the complete Oxford English Dictionary. He added he had seen it in a bookstore for $404, but for "the best dictionary ever," it's a bargain at the price...