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Word: offerred (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...free hand in dealing with the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza; and they are fearful that, if a future agreement with the Palestinians should fall apart, it could jeopardize their peace with Egypt. Accordingly, the Israelis bluntly described the draft treaty as a sort of final offer; Moshe Dayan called it a "take it or leave it" document...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Slouching Toward Oslo | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...workers cannot escape, and which continues to deprive them of tangible economic and political rights. It is difficult to see how this argument of repression can apply to an ad which presents a clear choice to mature, educated women--women who are completely within their rights to refuse the offer of a few hundred dollars should they find the price, in terms of personal degradation, too high. This is not relentless, structural exploitation; it is an offer, easily ignored. The argument that this newspaper should be presumed champion of the women of Radcliffe, protect them from having to make seamy...

Author: By Peter Tufano, | Title: Taking Offense | 12/2/1978 | See Source »

...realities of interdependence--in their dealings with Western-supported world banking organizations, with Western-based multinationals, and in bilateral deals with democratic powers. Since setting foreign policy is always a matter of allocating energies, isn't it wiser to take more advantage of what we have to offer (or withhold) economically, rather than further the widening gap between reality and rhetoric with more traffic in slogans...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: A Complex Place | 12/1/1978 | See Source »

Some may find it strange that anyone would fantasize for eight months about what Nelson himself calls an "inoffensive college prank." But Nelson believes the prank will offer him a new perspective on life at Harvard...

Author: By Jill Friedlander, | Title: Stopping Out | 12/1/1978 | See Source »

...rejects can be coddled and hosannaed into giving up their possessions, leaving the country and then killing themselves, then there are a lot of sheep out there and a lot of wolves to lead them. Moonies stalk the streets, even hold semi-respectable conventions; they and countless other groups offer an identity to people alienated by a society that doesn't give a good god damn about them. And Jonestown or not, upcoming FBI investigation or not, these cults will continue to flourish...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: A World Gone Berserk | 11/30/1978 | See Source »

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