Word: offer
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...German soccer hooligans who left a French policeman in a deep coma on Sunday so shocked their country that Germany offered to withdraw from the World Cup -- an offer unlikely to be accepted not only because it would badly hurt the World Cup, but also since German fans are by no means the only offenders. "Although the offer reflects German sensitivity to the image of skinheads in combat boots wreaking havoc abroad, it is also connected with the 2006 World Cup," says TIME Bonn bureau chief Jordan Bonfante. "Germany wants to host that tournament, which makes them bend over backward...
Milwaukee-based Manpower Inc. offers free training in many skills to almost anyone who asks. The company, says CEO Fromstein, realized early that it could capitalize on the labor shortage by supplying clients with the trained and adaptable workers that the firms could not find on their own. Coopers & Lybrand is one of many employers "doing a lot more with internships," says James Lafond, a Washington-area managing partner. Internships offer training to young people while giving them and the company a chance to size one another...
There you are, all forlorn on Thursday nights, and there's JERRY SEINFELD, swanning around in Australia on tour. As a public service, we humbly offer you some of the material Seinfeld is trying out in foreign climes. (Warning: comedy sometimes becomes misplaced in translation.) On Australia: "I love your flag [above]: Britain at night." On his neuroses while scuba diving off the coast of Queensland: "I see a rock, there's a fish, and, yes, I'm still alive." On Australian sport: "You have Australian-rules football here. Of course you do. You're in Australia...
...movie, The Truman Show. I know he is actually a great actor, not just a clown. This movie will change his career and will prove to the world that he is not merely a one-joke man but is one of the best actors Hollywood has to offer! ERIC SNYDER Gilbert, Ariz...
While accepting in theory that unification could come in some form someday when the mainland is democratic and prosperous, Taiwan has no intention of ever going back to being one province in a China ruled from Beijing. Taipei is not impressed with Jiang's offer of a special status like that of Hong Kong. "It will never happen," says John Chang, secretary-general of the Nationalist Party, the Kuomintang. "We are not Hong Kong, a British colony that could not choose its future. This is a Chinese government...