Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...event, I have taken it upon myself to offer my own All-Ivy team, based primarily on Harvard game performances. If this slate looks nothing like the coaches' team which will come out later this week, blame the coaches...
...Saudis have been muttering about how nice it would be if the U.S. would sell them bonds with an exchange-rate guarantee that could be redeemed for more than their face value if the price of the dollar in other currencies continues to fall. The U.S. reply: Washington cannot offer the Saudis bonds more attractive than those sold to U.S. citizens...
...election of 1974 and 43.5% in 1970. Experts attribute the latest decrease to the lowering of the voting age to 18. Because young people move frequently, they often fail to register for the relatively unexciting congressional elections. Aside from this indifference, some nonvoters argue that the major parties often offer no choice. Columnist Abigail McCarthy, who is separated from Eugene, said last week: "Voting has become the finale in an empty ritual, an act of piety...
...comes word that should really bug the True Believers. In a report in the journal Applied Optics, two U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists offer an earthly explanation not only for the Utah UFOS but possibly for many others as well. Reading Salisbury's book, Entomologist Philip S. Callahan and his associate, R.W. Mankin, were struck by the similarity between the movements of the UFOS and the actions of insect swarms. Their conclusion, after some painstaking research: the Utah objects were probably moths known as spruce budworms, illuminated by a common atmospheric phenomenon known as St. Elmo's fire...
...ready world of prizefighting, Gene Tunney was unique. Self-educated and fiercely proud, he remained determinedly aloof from the Damon Runyon characters of the sport's golden age. George Bernard Shaw, an avid fight fan, was more to Tunney's taste, despite the fact that the heavyweight refused an offer to appear in Shaw's boxing play, Cashel Byron's Profession. He believed that the playwright had portrayed fighters as simple and dimwitted, and Gene Tunney was neither...