Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration pledged to human rights might well re-examine U.S. policy toward Haiti and offer refugees now arriving [Aug. 7] political asylum. Unfortunately, the Haitian community here remains silent, out of fear for family and friends who remain behind. Their silence augurs a dismal future for the refugees and U.S.-Haitian relations...
What Davis did not know at the time was that McCrory had gone to the FBI and told its agents about the hit offer. The FBI then planted a tape recorder on McCrory, provided him with fake pictures of "dead" Judge Eidson splattered with imitation blood, and later filmed the meeting between the two. Agents reported that they had watched and photo graphed as Davis paid McCrory $25,000 in used $100 bills. Then they arrested him for solicitation of murder. Now, in court, Davis sat and listened as McCrory's voice came over the tape asking...
National Chairman Lewis B. ("Bud") Maytag would say only that Pan Am's offer would be carefully studied. But he has fought Texas International's bid from the start. National executives dislike the idea of being swallowed by a relatively small regional airline, and in fact they had been talking merger with Pan Am since January. Pan Am is stronger than it has been in years. Not long ago, there were fears that it might go bankrupt because of the pressures of rising fuel prices and unprofitable overseas routes, especially after the company lost $107 million in 1974. But under...
...piano bar commingle with bluegrass songs played by street musicians. The streets between the buildings, once choked with produce trucks, have been closed to traffic. Now pushcart vendors hawk their wares-scrimshaw knives and jewelry, puppets and pottery-while in the North and South Markets, scores of small shops offer highly specialized merchandise. Various stalls comprise an international bazaar of imported delicacies. In Quincy Market, the center hall, shoppers may sample raw oysters, yogurt cups...
Some 2 million American families, largely blue-collar or middle-income, are now enrolled in prepaid legal plans similar to the group insurance plans in medicine. A few plans offer a full range of services, including counsel for criminal offenses; most are limited to routine procedures?divorces, wills, house closings, landlord-tenant problems. While the plans have not grown as quickly as consumer advocates had expected, they are considered the likeliest means of giving the middle class legal protections now enjoyed by increasing numbers of the poor (through legal aid programs) and the rich (who can afford...