Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...survives economically largely because of oppressive elements and assumptions in society. In both cases, those who respond to the advertisements may not themselves be oppressed (a black Harvard student buying a diamond or a Kruggerand is presumably as "educated" and "completely within [his] rights to rights to refuse the offer" as is a Radcliffe student who wishes to pose for Playboy); what is at issue is whether the Crimson ought, through opening of economic opportunity to the advertiser, contribute to the enterprise in question. The issue, you see, ought to be the same in both cases...
...simply set up another company. In any case, he has promised that it wouldn't cost Harvard a ce Brustein believes that he can raise the entire operating budget for the company through foundation grants and private donations. For Dean Rosovsky, struggling to balance his FAS budget, Brustein's offer must have been irresistible...
...month from London-based Amnesty International, which estimated that more than 3,000 dissidents are being held in Cuban jails and charged that "a substantial number of Cuban prisoners are now among the longest-serving political prisoners in the world today." As far as Fidel is concerned, his new offer would settle those issues. He claims that the amnesty would cover 80% of the political detainees in the country; the remainder would stay jailed for "serious" crimes, notably terrorism...
...They offer substantial write-offs for the cost of labor, exploration and other "intangible drilling expenses," which often comprise 70% of the investment. If high-income investors hit a gusher, they get richer; if not, they do not lose much because a lot of their invested money would have gone for taxes anyway...
Unlike Webster's, Cassidy's will not seek to offer a standardized version of the language; its gaze is fixed instead on linguistic oddities too localized to win general acceptance. For example, Cassidy has discovered that in various parts of the U.S. a heavy rain is called a duck drencher, a chunk floater, a clod roller, a toad strangler and a goose drownder. False teeth are known colloquially as snappers, plaster pearls, chow chompers and china clippers. The term baby carriage is now used nationally, but baby coach is a popular variation in Mid-Atlantic states and baby buggy...