Word: offer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...return, Thieu can offer only modest progress since his December meeting with Johnson in Canberra. Thieu's new Premier Tran Van Huong has not succeeded in knitting a tangle of political factions into a coherent progovernment coalition, and a promised drive against corruption has not yet gained momentum. But a mobilization of South Vietnamese manpower may be ahead of schedule: instead of 135,000 new Vietnamese troops whose pay, arms and equipment the U.S. had agreed to supply, Thieu will request weapons for 200,000 men, to boost the strength of Viet Nam's armed forces...
Strictly speaking, the option in most of these cases is to enter into the fun-or leave it alone. But several of the objects have been so intricately put together that they offer the viewers some real variants to work with. Oyvind Fahlstrom sets up panels dotted with comic-strip and newsclip images mounted on magnetized blocks; these can be moved around at will. The result, Fahlstrom suggests, is to produce the "elusive-mysterious quality of a never-fixed work of art." Gerald Oster's Instant Self-Skiagraphy permits the viewer-participant to make shadow pictures with his hand...
...calling the show "participatory art," but then it occurred to him that even the Mona Lisa requires a degree of participation. He finally settled on "Options" because he considers it a "more accurate and basic term, pointing to the common quality held by all such works-that they offer choices and alternatives...
...response to public indignation, early this month ten major insurance firms began testing a new claim-settling method intended to cut red tape and avoid costly litigation. It is also hoped that the new system will save money for the companies. In seven counties around Chicago, they will immediately offer an injured accident victim up to $5,000 for medical expenses. If the victim, who must be a resident of the area, agrees not to sue for more, the participating companies will also provide up to another $7,500 in quick cash to cover lost wages, disfigurement, inconvenience, suffering...
Because 95% of auto-accident in juries are ultimately settled for $10,000 or less, the companies figure that if only 30% of those offered fast payoffs accepted them, the experiment would cost insurers nothing extra. In the unlikely event that every victim took them up on their offer, the companies estimate that their claims costs, now inflated by legal fees and court awards for pain and suffering, would fall by at least...