Word: offered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sorority girls, myself included, like to go wild on the big Winter Carnival weekend, but you made it sound as though every male on campus is out to "score" and every Dartmouth female is obese, boring and uglier than sin. Not so. Dartmouth College has a lot more to offer than drunk men and homely women...
Acknowledging that his intimate personal participation in the peace process had also risked "the prestige of the U.S.," the President stressed that "the efforts would have been worth making regardless of the outcome. In war, we offer our very lives as a matter of routine. We must be no less daring, no less steadfast, in the pursuit of peace...
...episode should be instructive to a country that has long been beset with doubts about its overall foreign aid program. It is particularly ironic that Washington should have given such a hospitable reception to a big, unexpected outlay in these tight times. Earlier, Congress had been expected to offer stout resistance to an Administration proposal for a $159 million increase, to $6 billion, in economic and military aid worldwide for fiscal 1980. Last week's events probably will not alter that prospect dramatically, but they at least raise the possibility that the nation might be moved to renovate...
...Washington had any quick-fix cures to offer, they were not apparent. In the Senate, a group of Administration critics led by Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum seemed content simply to badger and goad Energy Secretary James Schlesinger, variously recommending that he either quit or be fired as ineffectual. One of Schlesinger's biggest embarrassments: DOE'S strategic petroleum reserve, which is supposed to be available in times of severe shortage but is years behind schedule and contains less than a week's worth of oil. Pumps to get the crude back out of the huge underground Louisiana...
...Ozawa, 43, who speaks some Chinese, and the symphony's general manager, Thomas W. Morris, 35, had been invited by Peking to visit next December, but when normalization came, they asked to push the tour date forward. The Chinese agreed. They were especially interested in Ozawa's offer to provide some coaching in the form of master classes...