Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...national media to characterize in cynical terms everything our generation does. Those high school students who apply to and attend the nation's "elite" colleges are doing so, we are told, not for the intellectual atmosphere such schools can provide us with, but rather for the connections they supposedly offer to the "corridors of power", in Washington and Wall Street. Ours has been the new "lost generation," influenced by the self-indulgence of the Reagan years, hopelessly corrupted by daily corruption in sports, business and politics...
...toll-free number that AT&T had randomly assigned to their video-gear company, Oscarvision Systems. On the telephone dial, their number spells CHECK-IN, which they first realized eight years ago when a hotel called and asked for the rights to their number. But the cash offer was too tiny to bother with, so the Oscars held on to their digits even though the spelling had no connection with video...
...Holiday Inn and Hilton chains each have reservation numbers that spell their names. An official from the 143-hotel Hyatt chain, who was searching for numbers with significance, not long ago dialed CHECK-IN to see who had the listing. After some negotiations, Hyatt made the Oscars an offer they could not resist: $40,000 cash, $5,000 in credit toward hotel visits and $2,000 to print brochures with Oscarvision's new, more fitting number: PLAY...
...armed contras sitting in Honduran base camps, some Hondurans feel the U.S. has dragged them into a war that they never chose to fight. Though Washington understandably becomes annoyed when officials in Honduras and other Central American countries privately implore the U.S. to act tough with the Sandinistas but offer little public support, it is these countries that must live with the consequences of U.S. policies. Last month Honduras proposed to the U.N. General Assembly the creation of an international peacekeeping force to patrol its borders with Nicaragua and El Salvador. Honduras has refused to sign a new military cooperation...
...just as severely as the most misguided high- fashion trend. But by gaining control over design and manufacturing, department-store merchants think they can stay in closer touch with the tastes of their customers. Case in point: when working women turned up their noses last year at the miniskirts offered by designers, many retailers rushed to offer house brands with hemlines more suited to the office environment. As such thread-to-thread competition intensifies, consumers are likely to be the real winners -- even if their favorite designer turns out to be an imaginary character...