Word: offerred
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Carter will offer direct U.S. guarantees only reluctantly?and, preferably at the end of the bargaining process, in order to conclude a deal. He is in no rush to dispatch G.I.s to patrol a truce, a step that has no certainty of congressional backing. Potential opposition on Capitol Hill, moreover, is not the only limitation on what Carter can propose at the summit. If he presses Begin too hard, he runs the political risk of alienating influential American
...Times); assumed that Farber had been willing to show his publisher materials that he wouldn't show the judge (he hadn't); and assumed Farber needed a conviction in the murder case to make the book a success (Farber had turned down a movie offer because it seemed premised on a guilty verdict). Farber "has it in his power, perhaps," said Federal Judge Frederick Lacey, to get the doctor acquitted; yet if he does, "the book goes down the drain. . . This is a sorry spectacle of a reporter who purported to stand on his reporter's privilege...
Families can also turn to state schools. Many public colleges offer splendid education for less money, but not all that much less. This year the University of Delaware actually cut its tuition for instate residents by $60 in order to attract more students. But overall costs at public four-year colleges have climbed almost as much as they have at private institutions during the past decade. Though tuition, room and board at public colleges average around $2,000, many run quite a bit higher. Samples: the University of Vermont ($3,192), the University of Wisconsin ($2,583), the College...
Tennstedt will offer a complementary repertoire as principal guest conductor, favoring Bruckner, Strauss and Mahler. The former director of the State Orchestra in Schwerin, Tennstedt has a fluid line, springy beat and a confident technical mastery. He has never formally studied conducting. "Oh, you can learn tricks," he observes. "But the contact with an orchestra? You must have...
Thus does he offer, as the title says, the landscapes of a Western mind. Strange-his remembering, like any well-told story, makes events seem as though they happened long ago, or in some time less place. A reader may be surprised now and then when the book brings a reminder that the author was born only in 1939 and grew up in contemporary Montana. Still, Ivan Doig's youth is good news. An ex-newspaperman living in Seattle, he has a lot of time remaining in which to remember and write.-Frank Trippett