Word: offered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Baked to Order. In Melbourne, Australia, Nurse Anne Sutherland, 24, heard a local radio station offer a $280 prize to the first girl reporting there with the same name as an advertised biscuit, rushed to the registry office and changed her name to Honey Graham, collected the bounty...
...cooling-off period envisioned in the law. Under terms of the law, federal mediators must lead the negotiators back to the table, but they cannot make them bargain. After 60 days the President's Board of Inquiry must report on progress and specify management's last offer. Within 15 days-at least five days before the injunction expires-the National Labor Relations Board must take a secret ballot among workers to see whether they will accept the offer...
...summit-hungry Nikita Khrushchev swallowed hard and publicly proclaimed: "President de Gaulle's recent proposal that the Algerian problem be solved on the basis of self-determination . . . may play an important part in the settlement of the question." Until then, French Communists had dismissed De Gaulle's offer as "a political maneuver . . . intended to deceive democratic opinion," and the more rabid Chinese Communists called it "sugarcoated poison...
Bell & Howell to distribute three additional shares for each four now held by its stockholders, then offer a share-for-share exchange with Consolidated Electrodynamics Corp...
...portfolio holders who intend to hold their stock for long periods. For selling a put or call the stockholder receives a premium ranging from $112.50 on 100 shares and up, depending on the price of the stock and length of the option. Usually those who sell puts and calls offer them at different prices and for varying periods, thus lessen the chances of loss when options are exercised. "This," says Filer, "produces the same effect as an insurance company insuring thousands of houses against fire." With many options, the odds favor the seller, and he can receive enough premiums...