Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Should both scholars join the Harvard faculty, "it will certainly add new blood," said Columbia University American historian Eric Foner, who two years ago turned down a Harvard tenure offer. "It will prove that the Harvard History Department is able to bring in good people in American history...
Faust's husband Charles Rosenberg, a pre-eminent historian of science who teaches at Penn, also has received a tenure offer from Harvard. Faust said yesterday that she and Rosenberg were "very seriously considering" their offers and planned to visit Cambridge next month before reaching a final decision this fall...
...board for two colleagues and himself, but the Japanese company is challenging his motives. They suspect that Pickens may be involved with Watanabe in a scheme to elicit a greenmail payment in return for the 20% stake. Koito officials say twice last year Watanabe approached them with an offer to sell back his shares at a premium. They believe that after Koito rejected Watanabe's offer, he searched for a buyer...
Lotteries offer an easy source of revenue for politicians who lack the courage to raise taxes. The problem is that the poor play quite as much as those who are better off and can more easily afford it. Mark Michalko, former director of the California lottery, disputes the idea that lotteries are in effect a regressive tax on the poor. "The vast majority of players are middle-income and higher," he says. Yet he concedes that "there is some small percentage of people in the lower-income brackets who play ((to excess)), and by definition it is going...
...fecklessness and recklessness, without a shrewd thought in his head -- and without a Colonel Parker to cover up his skid marks. There is a certain irony in that, but it is of an altogether more subtle and interesting kind than anything Great Balls of Fire has to offer...