Word: offer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...offers he received from private business after last Nov. 5 would have meant putting himself out to pasture. The green was all but irresistible; some of the proffered posts would have made him instantly wealthy. They included the presidencies of an international-development firm, two Wall Street brokerage houses and a major mutual fund. But all of them would have precluded further political activity. The most remarkable offer, however, came from the American who probably senses more keenly than any other a defeated candidate's need to work for the future as well as the present. Richard M. Nixon...
Company Time. The new President offered Humphrey the ambassadorship to the United Nations within days after the election, when the two met briefly at an airport near Miami. He repeated his offer several times by telephone. Not only would it have placed Humphrey in one of the new Administration's more conspicuous posts; it would also have provided ample opportunity for political fence mending on company time, as it were. As an added lure, Humphrey was offered veto power over all Democratic appointees to the Nixon Administration in Cabinet, sub-Cabinet, White House and regulatory-agency posts...
...Tsarapkin's to West Germany. Ultimately the most widely accepted supposition in the west was that Ulbricht had only reluctantly gone along with the initiative in the first place. By that theory, he later succeeded in persuading the hard-liners in the Kremlin leadership to override the compromise offer and insist on conditions that were patently unacceptable to West Berlin and West Germany...
This year a benefit in New York will send Harlemites to Harvard. The Pudding Theatricals will also let other Harvard theatre groups use its stage, and possibly offer them financial aid. The dining room may even be opened to audiences...
...change in Theatricals policy will offer the Harvard community three or four slots a year, according to Gilbert. He expects that this will open new opportunities for dance productions and student-written shows. He hopes it will supplement the Loeb, which he called "more a director's than a writer's theatre...