Word: offer
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Higginbotham was the first one on her feet to offer an ovation for the Celebration's final act, the Freshman Steppers...
...dissipation of that character, houses have also been less likely to reach out to non-resident students who used to share the interests of specific communities with a base in the house. The houses cannot compensate for the lack of community feeling at the College; at the most, they offer 13 disparate communities...
...apologize, never explain"--that had been his motto for 17 years, ever since he left the presidency of the National Urban League after a racist gunman nearly took his life, going on to become Washington's most powerful back-room fixer. Now he had to violate that principle and offer a partial explanation of his role in the tawdry matter of Monica Lewinsky. "After I shall have read my statement," he said, wrapping himself in a protective layer of syntax, "I will not take questions. I'm going to leave and go back to work...
...near death experience caused him to remake his life. Eighteen months later, he left the Urban League; friends from those days believe he decided not to die for the cause. In January 1982 he accepted an offer from Robert Strauss, the silky, down-home Democratic kingmaker, to join Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, a firm with one of the biggest practices in Washington...
...competent" but says he urged her last year to begin looking for some other work. Vernon Jordan, the lobbyist who is a close confidant of the President's, passed her name along to Revlon in New York City. She was hired for a public relations job, an offer rescinded last week when the scandal broke--and Lewinsky got a graduate degree in American politics...