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While revelers cavort in colorful joy, their hosts are dickering over profits, festival names and even the ingredients of the powders they sell.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2013

Iowa City, San Jose, Calif, and Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Some big-city museums which did not hear of the show till it arrived are dickering for it too.

From Time Magazine Archive

France will have its Decca stations in a month, and both Italy and Spain are dickering for their own installations.

From Time Magazine Archive

For one thing, they are dickering for a lot more rack space in the nation's supermarkets.

From Time Magazine Archive

Inter-Continental is even represented behind the Iron Curtain with Zagreb's Esplanade, and emissaries are dickering with Hungarian Communists about helping to run a hotel in Budapest.

From Time Magazine Archive