Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what should we do? We've made an offer. The Soviets have accepted it. We can argue about whether it should have been made in the first place. I can't buy the line ((propounded by Secretary of State George Shultz)) that the Soviets have put us in a box, but it's a "wonderful box to be in." Dean Acheson titled his memoirs Present at the Creation. Well, if I'd been present at the creation of the zero option in 1981, we'd never have gone ahead with it, because it reduces the credibility of our deterrent. Nevertheless...
There's also the question of strategic arms. Let's keep the zero option in perspective. If we get rid of all those missiles covered by the offer, we're still talking about less than 3% of the 50,000 warheads in the world. We're not addressing the main issue...
...House of Commons returns to work this week from Easter recess, lawmakers may take up the proposed $3.9 billion buyout of Dome Petroleum by the Canadian arm of Chicago-based Amoco, fifth largest U.S. oil company. Dome's board, faced with $4.9 billion in debt, last week accepted the offer. But Toronto-based TransCanada PipeLines, which underbid Amoco by $600 million, vows to keep up the fight...
...spokesman for Thornburgh yesterday refused to confirm the offer of the FBI post. The spokesman said, however, that Thornburgh considers himself committed to head the Harvard institute...
Steve Singer, spokesman for the Kennedy School, refused to comment on the Administration's offer to Thornburgh...