Begun in 1970, when oil was cheap, it came on stream six years later, when the Yom Kippur war and Opec's new-found bargaining power had quadrupled the price.
This country was founded upon a bargain for which we continue to pay the price.
Toys RR" Us Charles Lazarus founded Children's Bargain Town, a furniture store, in Washington, D.C. in 1948, renamed it Toys R UsUs in 1957 and sold it to Interstate Stores in 1966.
Both were founded on a grand bargain: countries that agreed to place their nuclear programs under a system of international inspection and forgo the development of nuclear weapons (if they didn't already have them) would gain access to the expected atomic bounty.
The state, one of the first to adopt such a program, founded the system on a simple bargain.
Sometimes such fears are well founded, but opportunities are created for bargain hunters in some cases.
But "win some, lose some" is the bargain on which the EU is founded.
The machine is made by a company he founded, Helicos Biosciences, and costs "about $1 million, depending on how hard you bargain," he said.
"This was their bargain," said Michael Henry Adams, the author of "Harlem: Lost and Found" (Monacelli Press, 2001), a history of the neighborhood's architecture.
His airline was founded on the premise that Asians, even rich ones, like a bargain as much as anyone else and that ruthless attention to costs can make ticket prices affordable for almost everybody.
