Word: offered
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Miller is a team player, and that may explain why he accepted the President's offer to become Treasury Secretary after two other candidates had turned down the job. (Another theory is that he has political ambitions.) It may also explain why he helped the Administration get the natural gas compromise bill through Congress last year−raising questions as to whether the chairman of the Fed should be getting into any subject as controversial as gas decontrol. But earlier this year, when the Administration tried to pressure him into raising interest rates, Miller flatly refused. Such high rates...
...stay neutral in the Cambodia war, and complained that Pol Pot forces are being harbored in the crowded refugee camps. Well aware that the Vietnamese have ten divisions arrayed along the Thailand-Cambodia frontier, China has made both public and private gestures of support for Bangkok, including the offer of troops in case of invasion. Such proposals only embarrass the Thais, who are determined to maintain their traditional independence...
...force have an impressive armory, including 75 AMX-13 tanks, 530 personnel carriers, 60 155-mm howitzers and 103 modern combat aircraft. Though Singapore is spending over $400 million a year on its tough little army, one U.S. specialist notes that "it doesn't have that much to offer in terms of quantity that would make the difference...
Donovan said she already had one offer for the store, which is the only area supplier of scholarly religious material. "I feel very badly about having to sell it. because I enjoy running my own business, she said, adding that she would try to stay on as manager after she sells the store...
From Camp David, President Carter flashed a quick message via satellite to Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. Said the President: "I was concerned to learn that fragments of Skylab may have landed in Australia." Carter instructed the Department of State to offer assistance. None, however, was needed...