Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's kitchen workers last night decided in a close vote to accept the University's contract offer, reversing an earlier vote in September to reject the same contract...
...congressional leaders, with Carter as a prodding influence, then worked out a gentleman's agreement. They decided that the conferees in each chamber would meet separately and decide what they would offer the other body. As the conferees got down to the touchy differences between House and Senate, they ignored the rules that such vital decisions must be made in public, and went into closed-door sessions...
Shanghai boasts China's best department store. Called Number One, the stark, cavernous but well-stocked emporium attracts 100,000 shoppers a day. There are always eager crowds, but no lines, around the toy counter, which offers such items as a huge stuffed panda for $47, a solidly built dump truck for about $4.75, and a battery-powered submachine gun for $6.25. A Shanghai-made black-and-white TV set costs around $428, a solid-state radio $33. A nice chess set goes for $8.50, good basketball shoes for $5.25. The high-collared Chung-shan chuang, the so-called...
...another record low against the deutsche mark, dropped against the Swiss and French francs, the Dutch guilder and the British pound, and even sank to a 31-month low against the weak Italian lira. The apparent reason: moneymen concluded that if this is all the hope Carter has to offer, the dollar is still in trouble. Confidence in the dollar has so eroded that it sometimes plunges sharply these days with no specific news at all to account for the drop...
...marketing boys at the entertainment conglomerate RCA must know their audience's secret needs. But who are they aiming for with this fan club stuff? A league of otherworldly transexuals? Or the stereotypical, rock-and-roll, teenybopper, fan club crowd? David's enigmatic, vaguely disquieting expression in the offer's picture provides no clue...