This process has also set off fierce haggling — all around — about how clout should be defined.
There, the members of Congress said, they strolled around, haggled with merchants and drank tea.
The haggling over the years has been around just how much you can set aside.
"Geeks abound," I jot down, glancing around to see people haggling and trading their character-specific 3D glasses, which we had been each been given.
Haggling continued on Monday around Greek government plans over pensions, taxes and labour market reform.
It's almost hard to believe that it has been a month since I was wandering around Kowloon, haggling with vendors at the Ladies' Market in Mong Kok and swiping my Octopus card on the subway like a local in Hong Kong.
This snobby food-fetish thing — finding some exotic new recipe, hunting down the idiotically obscure ingredients, haggling with avaricious shopkeepers, fussing around in a steamy kitchen — to think how we used to dote on that whole precious foodie thing!
To find it the two men roam around the Midwest, haggling with an odd assortment of accumulators — "collectors" doesn't seem quite the right word for people whose belongings are piled waist deep in barns — over odds and ends that often look as if they ought to be in a landfill.
"If my grandma were still around, she'd be right on there, haggling," said Professor Benson, the author of "Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890-1940" (University of Illinois Press, 1986).
They did not come to the Catskills because they were dying to poke around in musty antique shops, haggling over the price of some old weathervane.
