Word: offer
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Final Throes. As adjournment approached, the weary Congress still faced the possibility that the President might try to push through the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and offer a new nominee for Chief Justice of the U.S. in place of scorned Abe Fortas. Johnson decided against submitting another nomination, but insisted that Congress act on the nuclear treaty before adjournment. The Senate, as it has frequently done during the session, ignored the President and pushed for adjournment. The House, however, was prevented from following suit by a group of liberal Democrats who hoped to keep both chambers in session until...
EVEN A Joe Friday, equipped with a college education and all the sensitivity-training the Los Angeles Police Department can offer, would probably find pounding a beat on the hostile streets of Watts a frustrating experience. After reading Varieties of Police Behavior, one might even guess that Friday would cause more friction there than would the proverbial Irish cop with a parochial grade school education...
...surprisingly, Wilson, after cautioning that it is difficult to provide absolute answers to questions of police behavior, proceeds to offer a few suggestions of his own. What he says is not sanguine, but sensible. Even though administrative control over the patrolman is limited, the police chiefs can try to lay down some negative polices: how not to treat Negroes, for example. And police departments can be functionally decentralized; policemen should be given a better chance to know their neighborhood, the better to exercise their discretion...
...economy where unemployment is running at 3.5% of the labor force (lowest since 1953) and wages are rising, higher costs for services are predictable. With plenty of work available, the unskilled are leaving low-paying jobs. The only recourse for the bosses is to offer more money without receiving higher productivity...
Most plots offer the writer a chance to show what he can do; bizarre or grotesque plots are more often a test of what he can refrain from doing. Here, for example, is a novel about three characters. Warren, Arthur and Junie, who set up platonic housekeeping together, squabble amiably, seek work, vacation at the seashore and, in various ways, find love. Presumably, such a book would have to be filled with novelistic bravado to lift it above the humdrum. But since Warren is a paraplegic, Arthur a near-spastic and Junie a hideously deformed victim of an acid attack...