He once tried to convince his managers it was in their interest to bargain over everything they might need from each other, down to office supplies.
The power to bargain over drug prices was expressly denied to federal health officials by the 2003 law creating the Part D drug benefit, during the Bush administration.
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Ms Stewart said Gravano was seeking a similar plea bargain over the pending drug charges in Arizona but a spokeswoman for Arizona's attorney general said he would still go on trial in September.
The idea was to get large institutions to serve as plaintiffs, presumably organizations that would keep a close eye on the litigation and bargain hard over fees.
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Nokia is a big chance and good bargain at over 4 dollars, because Nokia Siemens Networks has grown so strongly and profitable that Nokia and Siemens have decided to make it independent in these couple of years.
The good news is that the drug industry was right to bargain with Obama over the shape of health care reform (the medical device industry is suffering for not having done so) and that, in many ways, things are looking up, toward what could be one of the better runs of pharmaceutical innovation in years.
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During Allen Kneese's career, some bought the bargain, others hesitated over using the greatest of possible pollutants.
But what we also recognize is that that basic bargain has been eroding over the course of a decade.
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Officials say further savings will come from having driven a hard bargain with generating companies over extending contracts due to expire soon.
That threatens the old bargain, in which over-qualified graduates tolerated low salaries in exchange for interesting work, and a lifestyle abroad of colonial ease.
Throughout the discussion on libertarianism and the workplace, the argument has been made the workers bargain with their employers over wages and working conditions.
The better the Lib Dems do in the election, the harder the bargain they can drive over how many cabinet seats they get in a coalition.
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Denise Incandela, president of Saks Direct told WWD the company plans to lure those bargain-hunting fashionistas over to full price merchandise on saksfifthavenue.com by displaying tantalizing product shots of new items on the Fashion Fix site.
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Although REITs aren't the same bargain they were in 2000, over the past five years, the widely-followed Morgan Stanley REIT Index (amex: RMS - news - people ), which measures total return--including dividends-- has risen 20.4% per year.
And he still is pressing for a "grand bargain" budget agreement with the GOP over taxes and spending.
He proposes a grand bargain: swap Britain's veto over European integration for the right to opt out of any EU policy area.
But if your government say, OK we don't deal with, don't bargain with terrorists, your case is, over.
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The choice for Palestinians in the West Bank is stark and all stakeholders have made the Faustian bargain to retain the repressive and kleptocratic Palestinian Authority over the murderous and theocratic Hamas.
He was getting shed of them at bargain rates as he did not want to feed them over the winter.
Over the next 18 months, during plea bargain discussions, the prosecutor would insist that Swartz be labeled forever as a felon.
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But the innings imploded as Mendis gave up just one single from the final four balls of the penultimate over, and bowled Justice Chibhabha into the bargain.
The government of Uzbekistan in particular is likely to "drive a fairly hard bargain" in negotiations with the U.S. over moving military cargo over its territory, said Frederick Starr, chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at Johns Hopkins University.
Mr. Obama's refusal to bargain in good faith means we will have an extended war over spending for many months.
Since they face the same lawyers over and over, both sides have worked out a simple bargain: In exchange for fees, the plaintiff lawyers sell absolution in the form of a blanket settlement of their claims.
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The price was a 36% premium over recent market value, but still Green landed a bargain.
That and hype among investors who think they saw a bargain, given a close to 80 percent decline in the stock over the last 12-months.
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In that sense, they're ideal for Mr. Marcus, Mr. de Lardemelle and other bargain hunters who scoop up unloved stocks and tend to hold them over many years.
That's not entirely a surprise because they were so over sold that, I think there's been some bargain-hunting.
Indeed, with Chinese stocks down about 12% over the past year, pros say many are trading at bargain prices.
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Because, by definition, information about private firms is usually not publicly available, there would also be much fewer buyers aware of the juicy take-over target, and that it was possibly available at a bargain.
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