Word: deal
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Alumnae focused both on the future of their own organization--not mentioned in the merger deal that took effect Friday--and on the nebulous academic emphasis of the new Institute...
China's ideological Brahmins have cut a deal with the nation's spiritual leaders--as long as your religions support the regime, we'll let you exist. But there's a flip side: Step off that narrow path, and you'll go to jail. "Prison," Chinese priests and nuns still say, "is our seminary." In 1982 China's constitution was amended to permit freedom of religion. But that's not the same as freedom of belief or freedom from government interference. Thus while China has officially produced 1,000 Catholic clerics in the past 18 years, all government-certified Catholics...
...Morris showed up in 1997. But the players knew their coach's fastball was major league scary. So when he gave them a pep talk about following their dreams, they challenged him to follow his own and try out for a major league club. And they offered him a deal: if their team, the Owls, made the state tournament, Morris would go to a major league tryout. He agreed, just to get them to shut...
...Over the long haul," she adds, "students trusted me to tell the truth, and to deal with issues honestly as I saw them...
...Yahoo-wannabe Excite. The match was hailed as a commonsense combination of access and content -- "The Media Network of the Next Century" -- and the value of the two companies soared on the prospect of a broadband portal. Doerr's firm Kleiner Perkins was at the center of the deal, having helped launch both companies (which not so coincidentally were across the street from each other in Redwood City, California). More...