Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soon, romantic reptiles are dreaming up urgent reasons to call the beloved at home. And no matter what they think, everyone else knows what is going on. Despite the pitfalls, the authors do not proscribe all office affairs. After all, they argue, some are the real thing. But they offer a few valuable tips on damage control. Example: Never transfer the beloved to your own department, unless you want to destroy office morale -- and possibly end up facing a sexual harassment suit...
Despite Spence's goal, many junior faculty in the English Department continue to say that the promotion process does not offer them a reasonable chance at securing senior posts...
Seton Hall basketball coach P. J. Carlesimo had been scheduled as the banquet's guest speaker, but was forced to cancel in order to purse contract negotiations at the University of Kentucky, an offer he declined on Monday...
...would be uncharitable to criticize a Big Boy restaurant for not being a Howard Johnson's, but when one has been looking forward to a Howard Johnson's hot dog and a dish of Howard Johnson's maple walnut, anything that Big Boy has to offer is, well, not the same. And if one inquires politely how far down the superhighway one must go to find the next Howard Johnson's restaurant, the polite answer is that there aren't any there anymore...
...increased competition from all kinds of newcomers, like McDonald's, and the gas shortages of the 1970s hurt all roadside businesses considerably. There were also some who claimed that baby-boom customers preferred zippy novelties like, say, tacoburgers. So when Howard B. Johnson, son of the founder, got an offer in 1979 from a British conglomerate named Imperial Group Ltd., he was happy to sell an empire that included 1,040 restaurants (about a quarter of them , locally franchised,) plus 520 motor lodges for a tidy $630 million. But the deal did not bring lasting happiness to the Britons...