Word: offerred
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...proposals of his own. As National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft bluntly explained after Bush's Coast Guard speech, "The President felt he appeared too negative before, so he's trying to appear more positive now." Other White House officials added that Moscow had made "major concessions" in its latest offer to cut tanks and other conventional weapons. They pointed out, moreover, that the Soviets had done so "in a serious way, at the bargaining table" in Vienna, rather than in splashy public pronouncements...
Early March 1989--The search committee offers the presidency to Rodin. However, the Board of Trustees will not vote until Rodin accepts the offer...
March 13, 1989--Rodin turns down the post. The search committee plans to convene again and continue interviewing. Committee members say they will not offer the presidency to the remaining top three candidates...
...tried to offer explanations for what has happened in these cases," says Barnard. "Some of these explanations have been very, very farcical." His efforts have been impeded by the fact that his subcommittee is not empowered to obtain confidential IRS documents without the consent of the concerned taxpayer. But although several taxpayers have given their consent in the current investigation, the Justice Department has blocked the subcommittee from getting the information it seeks...
...reconciliation between the two Communist giants may offer more trouble than Washington has acknowledged. That once pre-eminent danger -- monolithic Communism -- may be gone, but that does not preclude new and improved threats. Detente in the East will allow Moscow to cut some of its 45 divisions stationed along the Chinese border. That's good, but not if it relieves pressure on the Kremlin to reduce troops in Eastern Europe. For Cambodia, the relaxation has accelerated the pullback of Soviet-supported Vietnamese soldiers. That's good, but not if it eases the return to influence of the Chinese-backed Khmer...