Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ames said the union has been trying to reach a contract agreement with the city for six months. He added that the police will continue to operate under their old contract until the city makes them an offer which they feel compares with the salaries of police in neighboring communities...
...Looking Forward, illustrates a candidate's natural reluctance to psychoanalyze himself. Bush devotes two pages to describing the harrowing death of his three-year-old daughter Robin from leukemia in 1953. But when it comes time to sum up what this tragedy meant to him, all Bush chooses to offer is the flat observation, "To this day, like every parent who has ever lost a child, we wonder why." One mentions this incident not to fault Bush but to highlight the difficulties in trying to assess the meaning of life experiences. No one can write about Bob Dole without discussing...
...diplomats hinted that their boss may be preparing to demand that the independent British and French nuclear forces be reduced as part of a START deal. Arms Negotiator Victor Karpov remarked that if a START agreement with the U.S. is reached, "we would expect the British to make an offer." If that is in fact Gorbachev's game, he will get a loud no from London as well as Washington...
...also become part of our politics: his 54% approval rating in the U.S. Gallup poll is higher than that of most American officials. In the secret files that are being sent to the President by his experts, Gorbachev is viewed as ready to deal if he gets an offer. Should Reagan hint that he could ease up on SDI, the Soviet Chairman might be willing to climb into blue jeans (well, maybe some corduroys) and fly to the California ranch for a fireside discussion on the next step in reducing nuclear missiles...
Finally, the toys may cost too much for what they offer. Many parents, all too familiar with child-size attention spans, are wary of the latest fad. "I think these toys are getting outlandish," declares Sheila Menzies, 27, a single mother from Burbank, Calif., as she tows her two toddlers through the local Toys 'R' Us. "They are too expensive, and they leave nothing to the imagination...