Word: offer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican Party, that hour arrived this week in a supremely suitable setting. A ten-mile strip of sand reclaimed from the mangrove swamps and crocodiles a scant half century ago, Miami Beach easily matches anything the G.O.P. Convention can offer in the way of razzmatazz. The swamps have yielded to well-manicured palms and aquamarine swimming pools laid out almost end to end. The crocodiles have given way to a rather more rapacious species - sharks capable of picking an unwary tourist's wallet to the bone in no time. Along the shore, multistoried luxury hotels and condominium apartments march...
...Breed Republicans figured heavily in the speculation as the convention opened. Virtually all of them could offer Nixon, a man of the center, the sort of progressive appeal that would compensate for his weakness in the heavily urbanized industrial states. Such ideological equations are fast replacing geographical balance as the criteria for the second spot. Reagan, Texas Senator John Tower and Florida Governor Claude Kirk figured less prominently in the speculation; if Nixon decided that he needed a man from the right to offset George Wallace's third-party appeal, he was expected to turn to them. But the betting...
...inevitably depressing consequences for both the economy and the Viet Nam war effort, would have provoked White House intervention. Union representatives and Chief Industry Negotiator R. Conrad Cooper of U.S. Steel shrouded their meetings in unaccustomed secrecy, avoided the usual inflammatory statements. When Federal Mediator Simkin showed up to offer his assistance, he was politely told to go home. He did so, and settlement was reached 28 hours before the strike deadline...
Demands of Fairness. Specifically, the N.Y.S.E. board of governors ruled that "negotiations leading to acquisitions and mergers, stock splits, the making of arrangements preparatory to an exchange or tender offer, changes in dividend rates or earnings, calls for redemption, new contracts, products or discoveries, are the type of developments where the risk of untimely and inadvertent disclosure of corporate plans is most likely to occur." Such activities may be kept secret by top management, but secrecy is less and less possible because "at some point it usually becomes necessary to involve persons other than top management." At that point, according...
Chabrol's films rarely offer this much insight into events of the unfilmed past--another requirement, in this case, of melodramatic genres. The grotesque levels of thievery and sexual blackmail implied make understandable an exhibited malaise (Chris generalizing supremely about all of Hamburg: "This place is dead. On Saturdays it's worse than France."), leading to a cynically Darwinian attitude toward self-preservation (Christopher: "I do have her interests at heart--as long as they're the same as mine."), leading to strange personal mannerisms (Chris's habit of repeating words and grimacing...