Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pending legislation would affect almost every aspect of the relationship between management and workers. If some leading congressional Democrats and their labor-union allies are successful, companies will have to pay a higher minimum wage, provide a Government-mandated menu of health-care benefits for all workers and offer unpaid leave and guaranteed job security to employees who leave work temporarily when they become parents. Other bills would set up new rules governing unionization, plant closings and on-the-job safety...
...Alan Greenspan, 61, a highly regarded private economist (and longtime member of TIME's Board of Economists) who served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers during the Ford Administration. Said Greenspan last week, after revealing that it took him "milliseconds" to accept the President's job offer: "Under Paul's chairmanship, inflation has been effectively subdued. It will be up to those of us who follow him to be certain that those very hard-won gains are not lost...
Bercovitch was the last senior level Americanist appointed in the department until Visiting Professor of English Phillip Fisher, an expert in 19th and 20th century literature at Brandeis University, received and accepted an offer this year. Porte called this appointment "imperative...
Apostolides said earlier in the year that in addition to the opportunity to become chairman at Stanford, the greater affinity for the social sciences at the California school made the offer more attractive. "It is the vision of Stanford's department that we not reduce literature to a certain theoretical approach. We should be more open to influences from all the social sciences," said Apostolides, who holds a doctorate in sociology...
Skocpol was reportedly considering an offer for a joint-post in politics and sociology at Princeton University. But the bid never materialized when that school's administration nixed the offer...