Yet just last August, when Juan Luis needed $10,000 to pay a tax bill on what remained of his business, he telephoned two of his most reliable loan sharks, bargained for the best interest rate and arranged for a drop at one of the 10 chicken stands in the city that he still owned.
If you're dreaming of an autumn escape, Tom Hall will be online at 1pm (BST) on Wednesday to give advice on where to find reliable sunshine, long-haul bargains and the best locations for a spot of "leaf-peeping" (if you're on the east side of the Pond, that's the ideal places to view the fall in all its splendour in areas such as New England).
The total is a lot for a middle reliever but a bargain for a reliable starter.
The Yankees felt that turned out to be a bargain considering how reliable he was for them, starting 118 games behind the plate and providing steady guidance to the pitching staff.
Piazza is their best player, their most reliable run producer and a relative bargain at $9.5 million next season.
Using low-cost cameras hooked to a personal computer with an Internet connection, WiLife offers reliable video surveillance that is a bargain compared with the offerings from central monitoring services like ADT.
Although she said that she has been paid in a more timely fashion since then, she told me that she feels that collective bargaining could lead to more reliable paychecks.
It was a bargain and promised to be more reliable than many other second-hand models.
Consequently, the schedules of Aeroflot with its subsidized bargain-basement fares constituted the only reasonably reliable transport and communication links throughout the year.
This paper proposes a software agent based resource brokering scheme that employs a resource brokering agency consisting of a set of software agents which discover and recommend reliable devices, negotiate resource cost using non-cooperative bargaining game, and schedule jobs.
