Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rich Gedman, Boston's starting catcher for three years, is missing. He turned down a three-year offer of $2.65 million to become a free agent. He has been unable to find a better offer so far, but is ineligible to re-sign with the Red Sox until...
...addiction or rampant crankiness. His struggle back toward health and sanity is usually undertaken with the help of a younger woman, who may be as wounded a victim of modern life as he. The saving grace is just that: a recognition that Christian, specifically Roman Catholic, teachings can still offer hope to lost souls. And the setting tends to be Louisiana, where Percy, 70, has spent most of his adult life...
...downers. "I needed the money," he tells the two physician friends who have been charged with overseeing his probation. Now Tom, alcoholism temporarily in control, needs to resume his psychiatric practice. The trouble is, no one in Feliciana seems to require the old- fashioned Freudian counseling he has to offer...
...closer to foreign policy than his morning newspaper. Dukakis' positions, which are still hazy, smack more of Harvard than of the heartland, which may be a problem in the South. He opposes the President's policies in Central America and on Star Wars but has yet to offer a positive program other than wispy references to world peace. Nonetheless, Dukakis' pragmatic liberalism is appealing to a party searching for a post-Reagan philosophy. Pollster Geoffrey Garin contends that Dukakis is the only Democrat able to say, "I've seen the future, and I've made it work...
Perhaps the more alarming charge is that Jefferies helped a customer, unnamed in the Securities and Exchange Commission's probe, manipulate the price of a public stock offering. The stock, also unnamed but widely believed to be Fireman's Fund, was languishing last May in the days just before the insurance company's owner, American Express, was planning to offer more of the shares to the public. Jefferies is accused of briefly boosting the market price -- and thus illegally rigging the price of the new shares -- by buying blocks of Fireman's stock right before the offering. The New York...