Assuming both want to stay relevant five years hence, 3Par looks like it will be a bargain for whichever firm wins this bidding war and likely there will be some incredibly long and tense meetings in the conference rooms of the firm that loses.

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Telkom's introduction of pre-payment cards for home telephones, sold everywhere from petrol stations to village shops, eliminates the risk that poor customers will not be able to pay their bills, and improves the firm's cashflow into the bargain.

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Depending upon the training agreement, the bargain is that the firm bestows the benefits of all that fine training upon you with the understanding that you will remain employed for at least a certain period of time (as set forth in your Training Agreement).

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In doing this they ignore that workers and firms did not agree to the contract freely, rather the firm was forced by labor law to bargain with the workers.

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But as I stated earlier, this may be due in part to the record number of buyback announcements, which implies that corporations see their stocks as a better bargain right now than paying a premium to acquire another firm.

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The terms covering the antitrust litigation are no bargain either for shareholders, says Robert Renck, whose money management firm owns 1% of IR.

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