They were allowed to design their own districts with Democrats and Republicans striking handshake deals.
In his new biography, "Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball" (Harper, Bill Maddenn recounts that on Dec. 6, 1971, Steinbrenner's ownership group struck a handshake agreement to purchase the Indians for $8.6 million from Jimmy Stouffer, a classmate from Culver Military Academy in Indiana.
In 2011, Reid flirted with filibuster reform, but backed off at the last minute, striking a handshake deal with Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky).
After earning his MBA from Stanford, he returned to the University of Oregon where he and Bowerman struck a handshake deal in 1964, each with a $500 investment into a company called Blue Ribbon Sports to import Japanese running shoes.
The deal was struck with a handshake, and a harrowing $2 million renovation commenced.
No deal will be struck on a handshake; it will be a lengthy protocol.
The deal was struck on a handshake, and the two remained friends until Mr. Pritzker's death in 1999.
Drake remembered being amazed by two things about the pair: that they would be interested at all, and that the entire deal was struck with a handshake.
Uncharacteristically for Mexico, where business deals are often struck with a handshake by old school friends, Mr. Vergara acquired Chivas out from under Mr. Cárdenas by persuading about 150 of the 196 shareholders in the team, then a financially troubled nonprofit company, to sell to him.
The partnership was struck with a handshake at that first meeting, recalls Cunningham.
