"You boys drive a hard bargain, " Brother Jobe said and whipped out a fat roll of bills.

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In this scenario, it would be in the best interest of the American to drive a hard bargain.

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Merrill is betting that the offer of a couple of thousand jobs will help it drive a hard bargain.

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Like Magelli, many entrepreneurs don't think they can drive a hard bargain (or even a soft one) when raising money.

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So they are sure to drive a hard bargain with Fatah as efforts to create a national unity government get going.

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McLeish, who has also managed Motherwell, Hibernian and Rangers and the Scotland national side, has insisted he will continue to drive a hard bargain.

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Karren Brady, West Ham's managing director, is likely to try to drive a hard bargain, knowing ministers will be anxious to avoid the alternative of financing annual running costs.

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If the dealer can drive a hard enough bargain, the dealership can keep some or all of the incentive money.

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The government of Uzbekistan in particular is likely to "drive a fairly hard bargain" in negotiations with the U.S. over moving military cargo over its territory, said Frederick Starr, chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at Johns Hopkins University.

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Indeed, this bargain Zeos comes with a paltry half-megabyte memory and a 42-megabyte hard drive, and lacks a floppy disk drive for the new 3-inch disks.

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