Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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About 60 of the 1100 local Sears workers who will lose their jobs this winter accepted the offer of free courses, officials said. "Anyone who had an interest" was admitted to the classes, said Robert J. Santuchi, Sears' personnel manager for the Boston area plants...
...corporate rebuilding job that young Ford faced was formidable. The company was losing nearly $10 million a month, and labor relations were chaotic. The new boss did what any good manager in trouble does: he sought help. Ford accepted an offer made by a brash team of former Air Force officers and signed them up in a package deal. He gave them salaries that were princely at the time, ranging from $9,000 to $16,000. Among the ten Whiz Kids, as they were called: McNamara and Arjay Miller, both of whom later became Ford presidents. Henry raided...
...their Honor Among Thieves (Relativity), sing bold, head-on rock, Creedence Clearwater-style. Tunes like Gettysburg and Hard Luck Runner are of a type that has lately been called, somewhat pejoratively, "roots rock," but a band like the Brandos gives ample evidence that those roots run deep and still offer great nourishment...
...Mastroianni the man. The actor will oblige this pretense. "Basically," he says in a melodic baritone slightly rasped by his three-pack-a-day cigarette habit, "there is always yourself. On yourself you build. First the foundation, then the floors. So what I try to do is to offer myself undressed, without any covering. And in a naive way, as if it was the first time. Forget that I am a movie star. Forget, forget! I am ready to run all the risks...
Business seminars also offer a chance to kibitz with outsiders. "What's neat," says an Indiana man, "is you're not competing, so you don't mind exchanging ideas. I'm in explosives, and he's making mattresses for hotels. So you don't worry about trade secrets as such...