Word: offered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...succeeded Botha. Mulder has vowed to make Soweto "the most beautiful city in Africa" by planning two new shopping centers and hotel complexes, theaters, drive-in movies, a tennis club and stadium and at least 8,000 new six-room houses with electricity. The housing is a better offer than Sowetans have experienced up to now, but there are catches: under terms of the 99-year leases, a father could not hand down a house through his family. Also, the government retains ownership of the land, and thus still has a legal weapon to dispossess black dissidents...
...raise its food output by 30% or 40% within the next decade, Wyman estimates-if it had a market that would pay. The hang-up is that "getting the food from here to places like India is all out of proportion to the payoff. But the U.S. Government could offer some incentives so that business would find it profitable...
...want to know how prisoners are treated in Sing Sing. Democracy in Zaïre does not mean what it does hi France or the United States." Chances are, though, that the Western powers at this week's Brussels meeting would make him an offer he could not refuse...
...European stores still offer many bargains for the perspicacious visitor. In Italy, Fendi handbags and Nazareno Gabrielli shoes cost 25% less than they do in the U.S. Greece's hand-woven shoulder bags, called tagari, are priced at only...
...theme of Creve Coeur, finally, is valor. Toward the end of the play, Dorothea says, "We must pull ourselves together and go on, go on - that's all life seems to offer or demand." That has always been Tennessee Williams' credo, and he is scarcely likely to abandon...