Word: offer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guerrilla movement was organized in which 175 students pledged themselves to fight like Lawrence of Arabia. Four athletic credits were granted to students participating in guerrilla warfare. One alumnus suggested last night that that the Administration might offer similar credits to SDS members today...
THESE CLEVELAND details are currently interesting only because they offer important clues to the way Calkins thinks about Harvard...
October 8: Dean Watson came to the SFAC to explain his sons of Communists" remarks. Watson said he was "profoundly sorry for this lapse of judgement, and I offer my deepest apologies to all concerned...
...from the jittery bond market, which ordinarily supplies 95% of the capital needed to finance U.S. business expansion. Some bond dealers describe trading conditions as the most disorderly in memory. So many banks are unloading their bond holdings to raise money for loans that underwriters are being forced to offer "shock prices" to sell new issues at all. Southern New England Telephone Co. last week paid 7.723% interest-the highest for any unit of A.T. & T. since 1921-to bring out $65 million in debentures...
Anyone who has tried to find a proper nursing home for an aged relative has suffered a special agony. Homes that offer merely adequate care and comfort are hard to find, and the demand for places in them is rising steadily. For one thing, the 65-and-over population, which is already approaching 20 million, is growing by 1.7% a year, compared with 1.3% for the total population. Government programs also subsidize the convalescence of the ailing aged. For an oldster who has been in a hospital at least three days, Medicare will pay nearly all costs for 100 days...