Word: offer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...notion that Clinton had to offer some more textured explanation for the growing pile of evidence was coming even from old White House hands. "He owes it to the American people to tell them," said former chief of staff Leon Panetta. "This is not one you do in an interview. This is not one you do in a press conference. This one, you have to look straight in the eye of the American people and tell them...
...find a job last December, he wasn't informed of tryst allegations until weeks after she was called as a possible witness in the Jones case. Still, over the course of a month Jordan secured interviews for her in New York City, where she ultimately nabbed a p.r. job offer from Revlon (later rescinded). At one point Jordan said he asked Clinton whether the allegations were true; Clinton said no. Jordan told the press that he gave Clinton regular updates about the job search's progress. Jordan's job search on Lewinsky's behalf echoed one he conducted for former...
...incident got Batt thinking: How could his small, 70-bed community hospital offer low-income patients a way to pay for the rising cost of health care? Could they trade their skills for medical treatment? After all, barter may have fallen on hard times, but it's an American tradition: for decades people exchanged services for goods, not dollars. A country doctor's fee might be a bushel of potatoes or a freshly baked...
...remember that all online companies are not equal. Faux Internet companies--those that have just added com to their name to pump up the stock--are doomed to Home Shopping status within a year. They include Cybershop, Ktel and Marketguide. But the real Internet companies, like AOL and Yahoo, offer something different. They can sell ads for luxury cars and discount brokers that will reach well-off people, at work and at home, much more efficiently than either TV or off-line, dead-tree media. Wall Street understands that the best Net stocks are bargains, based on projected ad sales...
STRANGERS BEARING GIFTS: Beware what you offer your host. Pass up chrysanthemums in Argentina (they denote funerals), clocks in China (the written characters resemble those for death) and red pens in South Korea (red ink conveys unfriendliness...