Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cults such as Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, Scientology, Synanon, Hare Krishna and Children of God offer a refuge from the storms of the world. They purport to know the truth of existence, which members promise is available to anyone willing to submit to the discipline of the sect...
...serving as one of the city's assistant superintendents. Hannon's plan, known as Access to Excellence, avoids mandatory busing. Instead, it permits pupils to transfer to any Chicago school with vacancies if the transfer aids desegregation. More significant, ATE seeks integration by creating magnet schools that offer advanced programs to qualified students who live anywhere in the city, and by setting up more than 100 part-time career counseling, cultural and remedial programs. These include natural science courses at the lakefront Shedd Aquarium and courses in hotel management offered at two downtown Holiday Inns...
Those part-time offerings have so far been underwhelmed with applicants, but some full-time ATE programs are S.R.O. No fewer than 1,521 students applied for 805 places in three "classical" schools that offer enriched programs from kindergarten through the sixth grade. La-Salle Elementary School, an ATE language academy, received 1,000 applicants for 450 slots. According to preliminary head counts, ATE has drawn 18,100 students to desegregated courses for the first time. Says Hannon, "The program is only three months old, and I think we're off to a solid start...
...other hand, Borg-Warner seems to be getting a bargain. In a complicated exchange of stock, it would pay about $15 a share for Firestone. That is some $2 above the market price before the offer but far less than last year's $24 high and well below Firestone's book value of about $25 a share, or $1.5 billion. Aside from collecting assets cheaply, Borg-Warner would be buying 1) protection from a possible unwelcome bidder for its own company, 2) a sizable paper loss from the 500-series recall that could be used to reduce future...
...fretful is the atmosphere achieved by the clinical view that some people are even turning to ever increasing preholiday workshops that offer to help them "cope" with seasonal stress. This trend in popular therapy reached a bizarre pinnacle this year with the scheduling, in New York, of an eleven-day "antiholiday" workshop starting three days before Christmas. It was conceived by a therapist who says she and her followers hope to "create new rituals and celebrations" while at the same time they cure themselves...