Word: offer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knows, we will do whatever we can not to endanger a relief aircraft. But this means no flights day or night without clearance. Relief services have been offered facilities from Nigeria for either time of day, but nobody was interested in our offer. Now anything they do, they do at their own risk...
...friends' doors have been shut to us and opened to Ojukwu, even though we offer to pay cash for help, and he doesn't have an economy. Where is the morality of this world? We remove the word hate. We remove the word victory. We remove the word enemy. What we get back is poison...
...principal justifications advanced by the military for their developments. It is possible that an enemy might refrain from attacking out of fear that the U.S. would respond with its own CBW, even though the U.S. nuclear deterrent would seem to be a more effective persuader. Chemical and biological weapons offer an additional combat option-something to occupy the considerable middle ground between conventional weapons and nuclear warheads. Such an option may or may not be an advantage. Defenders of the program contend that certain forms of CBW could make combat relatively humane. Theoretically, chemicals could be perfected to the point...
...idea originated in-where else? -California. San Diego's United States National Bank has long used four-color pictures of a local statue, and in 1965 officials of the Wells Fargo Bank in San Francisco offered checks decorated with the silhouette of a stagecoach. Check writers as far away as Laos sent in requests to open new accounts at Wells Fargo, which bears the name of the old stagecoach company. Last year the San Francisco affiliate of the Bank of Tokyo started using line drawings of pine, bamboo and plum trees. In the past month, Bank of America...
...extension" checks that are supposed to give the account holder a choice of self-images: an American eagle for the patriot, cupids for the romantic, geometric patterns for orderly types. Manhattan's Irving Trust Co., Detroit's Bank of the Commonwealth and about 300 other banks now offer two-color checks decorated with hearts, psychedelic designs and even the peace symbol...