Word: offer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...there is able to tear down the K.L.A. barricades. Ambassador Hill will return this week to try to get the checkpoints cleared, and U.S. Envoy to the Balkans Robert Gelbard will continue to work on Rugova. But Holbrooke leaves Kosovo empty-handed: "I have no magic solution to offer...
Armstrong's vision of the new AT&T is simple enough: hooking up AT&T and TCI (1997 revenues: $7.6 billion) "will enable us to offer a full portfolio of services with one connection from one company. And this is a big deal." So big, in fact, that there was a hint of desperation about the merger, which sped to a conclusion after just eight days of talks in the Manhattan offices of Wachtell, Lipton, AT&T's legal counsel. "Time was closing in on us," says Armstrong, who at 59 remains a man in a hurry who relaxes...
...media these days are awash in managerial pornography: adulatory profiles of the big-shot CEO, allegedly revealing the secrets of his success. The bookstores offer shelves of advice about how to be a successful manager. A middle manager with dreams, like so many others, of becoming an upper-middle manager reads the articles and scans the books looking for inspiration...
...Holbrooke got President Milosevic to hold back on his offensive last week in the hope that the U.S. could broker a deal with the KLA. "But in the end, Holbrooke could offer Milosevic nothing from the KLA," says Waller. "Right now, the U.S. can't even find the organization's leader...
...stand. With negotiations deadlocked between Lewinsky's attorneys and Starr's investigation over what the intern would be prepared to concede in her testimony, getting Tripp's testimony on record is a way of boxing in Lewinsky, says TIME Correspondent Eric Pooley. Lewinsky's lawyers have reportedly repeated the offer that she would testify to an affair but not to a cover-up, but that hasn't been enough to persuade Starr to offer immunity. Putting Tripp in the stand - even for a limited preview of her testimony - raises the stakes for the Lewinsky camp...