Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overthrow Nicaragua's Marxist Sandinista junta. He was even permitted to deliver his patented fund-raising pitch, minus the projection of 57 slides that usually accompany the spiel. Holding a photograph of a makeshift contra grave, North, his voice choking, told the legislators, "Gentlemen, we've got to offer them something more than the chance to die for their own country and the freedoms that we believe...
Yuli M. Vorontsov, the first deputy foreign minister who heads the Soviet team at the superpower arms talks in Geneva, said yesterday the Kremlin's offer should give a "new impulse" to the negotiations, which have been bogged down for months...
...filmmakers' quest for authentic detail provided moments of offscreen drama. Plans to use a Fortune magazine cover in exchange for promotional ads got bogged down when rival Forbes magazine made a similar offer. In the end, Stone stuck with Fortune, but not without miffing Publisher Malcolm Forbes, who politely turned down later requests to use his private yacht. More crucial was the race to finish Wall Street before the looming directors' strike, which was expected this week. Stone mobilized his film forces, switching the last few weeks from twelve- to 14-hour days, and wrapped on July 4, five days...
Last fall CBS signed a contract with AGB Television Research, a British ratings service, as a secondary statistical source. Starting this September, AGB will offer national ratings in the U.S. based on a new technology called people meters. Because AGB's sample viewers are asked to identify themselves when they watch TV by punching digits on a specially programmed, remote channel control, some experts predict the new system will give more reliable readings than the usual methods. The threat of this new technology from AGB hastened Nielsen's decision to convert to a system of people-meter ratings by September...
Hungry drivers gobble breakfast, often an Egg McMuffin, from Styrofoam cartons and slurp coffee from no-slosh mugs. Others balance checkbooks, do crossword puzzles and dictate letters and grocery lists into pocket-size tape recorders. Hot summer weekends offer an opportunity for passengers to take partial charge of the car. Inching along to the approach to the George Washington Bridge between New Jersey and Manhattan, occupants of cars without air conditioning who face delays of more than an hour hold the doors open for a little circulation...