Word: offer
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...When the mechanic calls to tell you that brakes and a timing belt and other services will run close to $2,000, it's time to break out the newly perfected art of the considered pause. You really don't even have to say anything pitiful before he'll offer to knock a few hundred dollars...
...making steady progress. I think she’s won the respect and admiration of all of her teammates.”Instead of having to deal with evil stepsisters, Kim has had the support of her sabre teammates, freshman Caroline Vloka and freshman Hayley Levitt. They offer advice with regards to fencing—advice that Kim views as integral to her success.“They motivate me, they help me, and they tell me that I can do it,” Kim said. “We all support each other...It’s such...
...Faust called “the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression” and follows months of University deliberation over its operating expenses and capital projects. Harvard has asked schools to institute a salary freeze for faculty and non-union staff and recently announced that it would offer some staff over the age of 55 buyout packages in an effort to reduce costs...
...other task force members said the slowdown in construction may offer a rare opportunity for planners to sort through a queue of community concerns that have been overshadowed by the science complex’s construction. City officials had accelerated approval for the science complex construction plans after University officials said the unique and urgent research being conducted in areas such as stem cell biology merited a faster timeline...
...praised him not only for what they saw as urgently needed legislation, but also for what they perceived, at the time, as a bold foray onto a new political path. Through overtures to Republicans in Congress and perceived concessions in the stimulus package, Obama had given the opposition an offer they couldn’t refuse. Hope had indeed won a mandate. It was only a matter of time before everyone in Washington started seeing the world in a purple...